2009/8/18 Wen Pu <dexte...@gmail.com>: > > On Aug 18, 2:46 am, Jean-Philippe Bernardy > <jeanphilippe.berna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Wen Pu<dexte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > btw: is there a "keyboard-quit" function in Yi, just like the one on >> > emacs? >> >> I guess there is, but my emacs-fu is lacking so I'm not sure what you mean. >> What do you need exactly? > > It's the function bind on C-g on Emacs, it will "cancel running or > partially typed command" whenever it is invoked, like a "universal > quit". > > This is especially useful for Emacs style operations, which usually > involve long key sequences that can be easily massed up by users. > > Thanks, > -Wen >
AIUI, in Emacs C-g doesn't really do anything magical when part of a key sequence; e.g. "C-x C-g" will tell you that "C-x C-g is undefined", because that's exactly what the sequence is -- undefined. There's just this Emacs mode author convention that modes should never ever have C-g in their default key sequences just because C-g is, as you say, seen as some sort of universal key sequence abortion key. One Emacs mode which breaks this particular convention is actually haskell-mode which has "C-c C-g" bound to "haskell-indent-insert-guard", which basically inserts a guard at point. Cases where C-g *is* useful though is e.g. if you try to execute a function which sort of hangs your Emacs, such as connecting to unresponsive servers (synchronously). Hitting C-g will then execute keyboard-quit which sends a "quit" signal to Emacs making it abort this horrendous call. I have absolutely no idea on how this would be implemented in Haskell/Yi or if it is even needed at this point of development. JP implied that there may already exist such a thing, but I can't be bothered looking for it myself. -- Deniz Dogan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
