Message-ID: <5089A1CC.5030005@cs.utoronto.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:32:12 -0400
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Emacs crashing on C-x C-g
References: <5069E625.9050803@cs.utoronto.ca> <5069EA0D.7080303@cornell.edu> <5069F83D.5060502@cs.utoronto.ca> <5087E872.4070902@cs.utoronto.ca> <50885727.4050305@cornell.edu> <50885D17.9090101@cs.utoronto.ca> <50894F58.6050000@cornell.edu> <508952E5.70200@cs.utoronto.ca> <50895454.3040406@redhat.com> <83sj92a3vl.fsf@gnu.org> <5089718A.6020709@gmail.com> <50899C0F.8020304@cygwin.com>
In-Reply-To: <50899C0F.8020304@cygwin.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On 25/10/2012 4:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 1:06 PM, ping wrote:
>> 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.
>> the simplest solution: change to vim.
>> I don't know of any extra benefit using emacs instead of vim...
>
> It's been 3 hours and not a single flame.  Have the Editor Wars
> actually died out?  Maybe there's hope for peace in the Middle East
> too. ;-)
At first I thought ping was suggesting to close all present and future 
vim bugs with "works for me, I use emacs."

But that would be completely absurd, so I concluded it must have been a 
joke.

Ryan


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple