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Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying

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From: pinkanon pinkanon <pinkanon.pinkanon <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:25:53 +0300

> `C-x C-c' (save-buffers-kill-terminal) is a special case that
> requires a special customization:
>
> (define-key query-replace-map [escape] 'quit)

Great! Thanks, Juri! Thanks all!

01.04.2019, 23:46, "Juri Linkov" <juri <at> linkov.net>:
>>>>   (2) When I try to quit and some buffer is unchanged, I get the usual
>>>>   deal asking me what I want. The problem I have here [in addition to
>>>>   the problem discussed in (1), adapted to this case: "Type C-h for
>>>>   help."] is that I must use C-g, but not good old escape.
>>>
>>>  To avoid all such problems, just bind keyboard-escape-quit globally
>>>  when not on a tty where an ESC prefix still might be needed:
>>>
>>>    (when window-system
>>>      (define-key global-map [escape] 'keyboard-escape-quit))
>>
>>   I have no luck w/ this one, though. Emacs 26.1 build 1, Arch Linux.
>>   steps: emacs -Q somefile -> Eval the code -> type something ->
>>   C-x C-c -> "Save file...? ..." -> Escape -> "Type C-h for help"
>
> Thanks for detailed test case, I misunderstood your original description,
> but now it's clear.
>
> `C-x C-c' (save-buffers-kill-terminal) is a special case that
> requires a special customization:
>
>   (define-key query-replace-map [escape] 'quit)

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