{"id":117,"date":"2010-09-07T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2010-09-07T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:22:00","slug":"redefining-quit-char-in-emacs-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Redefining quit-char in Emacs 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quit command C-g is pretty much standard in Emacs. It runs the interactive function keyboard-quit and also serves as the default quit-char. It aborts basically every running function, also it allows you to cancel operations in the minibuffer. The Emacs documentation describes current-input-mode, set-input-mode and set-quit-char for getting and setting the quit-char value. Also, global-set-key allows you to rebind keyboard-quit to another character. However, this does not work very well. The quit-char is not settable for non-tty Emacs versions, e.g. on OS X using Cocoa Emacs you get this:<\/p>\n

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So, basically nothing changes. On a tty it looks more promising:<\/p>\n

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After rebinding the keyboard quit as well, using (global-set-key (kbd “C-q”) ‘keyboard-quit)<\/span>, not much happens either. It seems the minibuffer assumes C-g to be the choice of the day. Running find-file with C-x C-f or interactively via M-x find-file, and then hitting C-q does nothing except printing “Quit”. Hitting C-g however quits the minibuffer. This seems to be documented in Bug #1218<\/a> of Emacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quit command C-g is pretty much standard in Emacs. It runs the interactive function keyboard-quit and also serves as the default quit-char. It aborts basically every running function, also it allows you to cancel operations in the minibuffer. The Emacs documentation describes current-input-mode, set-input-mode and set-quit-char for getting and setting the quit-char value. Also, … Continue reading “Redefining quit-char in Emacs 23”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,24,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}