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31.0.50; C-g fails to exit loop

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 78916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kupfer <at> rawbw.com
Subject: bug#78916: 31.0.50; C-g fails to exit loop
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:32:11 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 78916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  kupfer <at> rawbw.com
> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:06:13 -0400
> 
> > LGTM, thanks.
> 
> Hmm... I'm getting cold feet.
> 
> Having grep'd further for `query-replace-map` in *.el and *.texi files,
> I'm beginning to think we should let those sleeping dogs lie: other uses
> follow the pattern of `y-or-n-p` of not supporting "arbitrary" commands.
> Most uses I found are in Emacs, but some are in third party packages, so
> there's a non-trivial backward compatibility issue in changing the
> bindings from `quit` to something like `keyboard-quit`.
> 
> So maybe the simpler patch below is preferable.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el
> index 9939273594f..130c19763f2 100644
> --- a/lisp/replace.el
> +++ b/lisp/replace.el
> @@ -3328,6 +3331,7 @@ perform-replace
>  			 (replace-dehighlight)
>  			 (save-excursion (recursive-edit))
>  			 (setq replaced t))
> +			((eq def 'quit) (keyboard-quit))
>                          ((commandp def t)
>                           (call-interactively def))
>  			;; Note: we do not need to treat `exit-prefix'
> 
> 

But if the key that causes 'quit' can be re-read and re-executed after
exiting the replace, shouldn't we do that?  Because AFAIU the above
will not make C-] behave as intended.

IOW, C-g might require special handling if it is bound to 'quit', but
other keys should be given back to the event queue.  Right?

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