From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:14:23 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] Add ability to interrupt current thread
	operation (search)
In-Reply-To: <1201114113-sup-1607@south>
References: <1200768101-sup-3312@tomsk> <1200768474-sup-7396@tomsk>
	<1200769080-sup-4420@tomsk> <1201114113-sup-1607@south>
Message-ID: <1201119167-sup-8440@tomsk>

On 23.1.2008, William Morgan wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Marcus Williams's message of 2008-01-19:
> > This adds the ability to stop the current threading operation. This is
> > usually a search, but its anything that ends up calling load_n_threads
> > in thread-index-view. The user can hit ctrl-g to stop the operation.
> 
> This looks great. I have a mild preference for not changing the
> messages, and there just being a general expectation of ^G being a
> cancelling key in Sup like it is in Emacs, but I'm open to suggestion by
> others.

My feeling was it wasnt obvious that you could cancel the operation
without it. If there was some way of making that more obvious
somewhere then the message could be removed. I didnt even realise I
could use ^G elsewhere until fairly recently!

Marcus