Emacs crashing on C-x C-g

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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. ;-)

(Please interpret the above as an attempt at humor and not a plea
to restart debates on the best editor.)

--
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
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