Subject: bug#45117: 28.0.50; process-send-string mysteriously exiting non-locally when called from timer

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:47:08 +0000

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:44 PM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> > 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.

I agree, but playing devil's advocate, can you expand on the
rationale for that?  Why shouldn't timer functions be abortable?

João