Subject: Re: 28.0.50; process-send-string mysteriously exiting non-locally when called from timer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:44:28 +0200

> From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:50:33 +0000
> 
> there's a presumably reason we bind inhibit-quit to t in timers
> (Eli?)

The reason, quite obviously, is to prevent user's C-g from aborting
the timer function.