[Ilisp-help] how to abort a function

[David <dajo@Rednose.Rhubarb>]

I wrote this some time ago but was unable to post to ilisp-help (a
now-resolved problem with my ISP, nothing wrong with the ilisp list).

> Pascal Bourguignon <pj...@in...> writes:
> 
> > Why the  quite useful function comint-interrupt-subjob  is not mapped
> > to the keyboard in the subjob window?
> 
> It seems you are using FSF bindings (this is selectable, see the
> manual) where the binding for compile-defun-lisp conflicts with the
> traditional subjob interruption binding.  Why the former is favored
> over the latter in the inferior Lisp buffer is probably just an
> oversight.
> 
> > For now,  to stop a  lisp program, I  can only kill the  buffer (which
> > gives me: error in process  filter: Selecting deleted buffer [8 times]
> 
> Huh?  A command doesn't need to be bound to a key combination for
> you to be able to invoke it.  That would be insane.  You can always
> say M-x interrupt-subjob-ilisp RET or use the menu.
> 
> And customizability of Emacs isn't there just for the heck of it,
> so if you find keybindings suboptimal, make your own bindings.
>         
> > I note that there is a lisp-bindings function called by ilisp-bindings
> > over   possibly   these   maps:  ilisp-mode-map,   lisp-mode-map   and
> > scheme-mode-map,  which puts  interrupt-subjob-ilisp  in the  \C-c\C-c
> > slot of the keymap, but when I type:
> 
> Yes, but if you read it further, you'll (maybe) see that
> compile-defun-lisp is also bound to C-c C-c.
> 
> -- 
> Hannu
> Please don't send copies of list mail


I think that there is room for a little care in interpretation and
investigation.  It seems to me that, since the context is discussion of a
keymap, it is indeed true that it is only possible to kill the buffer.  We all
know that commands can be invoked with M-x, but the original question was:
> Why the quite useful function comint-interrupt-subjob is not mapped
> to the keyboard in the subjob window?.
And the central point is that if you use C-c C-c what you get is
compile-defun-lisp.

The reason the problem arises is not unique to ilisp, although ilisp
is a fairly bad case: the ilisp keymap is a *mess*; you can look at
ilisp-mode-map with M-x describe-variable.  Emacs keymaps can become
garbled if they are not put together carefully; I suspect that people
get tired of fiddling and stop when it seems to work instead of doing
some organised testing.

If you look at the keymap and extract the C-c entries this is what you get:

 (3 keymap
    (3 . compile-defun-lisp)
    (3 . comint-interrupt-subjob)
    (3 . comint-interrupt-subjob)
 (3 keymap
    (3 . comint-interrupt-subjob)

Six entries for C-c.  So, a keyboard entry of C-c C-c gets first a
keymap, and then a command, which is indeed compile-defun-lisp.  The
rest of the C-c entries, from a functional point of view, are just
garbage.  The keymap could be quite a lot smaller and still work as it
does.

A quick fix is to use define-key to replace compile-defun-lisp with
comint-interrupt-subjob.

dajo