Subject: Re: bug#48603: 27.2; [PATCH] Quit minibuffers without aborting kmacros

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 21:54:59 +0200

[email-masked] writes:

> Rationale: a user wants to copy a command from command history without
> executing it. Or user wants to complete a file name in C-x C-f and copy
> it without finding the file. I believe this should be possible in
> keyboard macros.

`C-g' is part of how one normally operates `M-x' (etc.) in some
circumstances, so it might make sense to have a special quit symbol for
that; yes.

Does anybody else have an opinion here?

> * src/data.c (syms_of_data): New error symbol `lite-quit'

But it should be called something more descriptive, like
`minibuffer-quit'.

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