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On 10/25/2012 12:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:40 -0600
>> From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>>
>> On 10/25/2012 08:55 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>>>>    http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12697
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I imagine it will be fixed before the release of Emacs 24.3.
>>>>> Agree the initial part is emacs. But I suspect the confused bash
>>>>> business is not. ^G should either send SIGINT or not, this core dump
>>>>> thing is not cool.
>>>> Do you know whether this is Cygwin-specific?  Have you checked to see
>>>> what happens on Linux?
>>> Oops, you're right: I see the exact same behavior on linux. However,
>>> that's via ssh in a mintty window, so it could still be mintty. Can
>>> somebody running Linux directly verify, perhaps?
>> Linux (at least my setup on Fedora 17) has the same problem - when using
>> emacs as the editor under 'git commit', an ill-timed ctrl-G on my part
>> unceremoniously kills emacs as a result of sending the SIGINT to the
>> entire process group.  I hate the behavior, but it is definitely not
>> cygwin-specific.
> Why doesn't git block SIGINT when it invokes $EDITOR?  I think that's
> the prudent thing to do.
>
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the simplest solution: change to vim.
I don't know of any extra benefit using emacs instead of vim...

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