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#27634
25.2.1; C-g does not quit register-read-with-preview
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Reported by: Paul Rankin <hello <at> paulwrankin.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:00:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Merged with 25370
Found in versions 25.1.90, 25.2.1
Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, at 12:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I believe the user expectations by now are that any character should
> do. We want to exempt C-g and ESC ESC in order to allow the user to
> bail out, but other than that, I see no reason to add restrictions
> where they aren't needed. "Alphanumeric" these days means much more
> than just ASCII, and we have no reasons I can see to restrict users to
> ASCII, certainly not after so many years of the current behavior.
>
> > One overlooked thing about Tino's solution is that C-g is a keystroke and keyboard-quit is a function, which obviously aren't necessarily equivalent. What if the user remaps keyboard quit to "7"?
>
> As Andreas points out, only quit char is important. If we want to be
> holier than the Pope, we could look at its value by calling
> current-input-method. I don't object to such an extension.
Looks like you guys have this under control 👍
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