From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:52:50 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2012, #02; Fri, 9)
Message-ID: <87a9uq5tql.fsf@Niukka.kon.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20121109192336.GA9401@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>  Comments welcome from people using unusual editors (e.g., a script that
>  starts an editor in another window then blocks, waiting for the user to
>  finish).

I often run a shell in Emacs in X, then start git commit in that
shell.  $EDITOR is emacsclient --current-frame, which asks the
existing Emacs instance to load the file and waits until I press
C-x # in Emacs to mark the file done.  If I want to abort the
commit, it is most intuitive to return to the *Shell* buffer in
Emacs and press C-c C-c (comint-interrupt-subjob) to send SIGINT
to git from there.  (I see that "an empty message aborts the
commit", and indeed it does, but well, I prefer not to trust such
a feature if I can instead just interrupt the thing.)

With pf/editor-ignore-sigint, C-c C-c in the *Shell* buffer kills
neither git nor the emacsclient started by git.  This is not good.
SIGQUIT from C-c C-\ (comint-quit-subjob) still works though.