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From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: getting CONTROL C  to interrupt X application
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Date: 1 Sep 89 20:43:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)

In article <261@auto-trol.UUCP>, marbru@auto-trol (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>YES, polling is the only answer in the X world.

Not so.  Look at the X11 code in GNU Emacs.  It uses SIGIO to do
asynchronous processing of X events.  A control-C handler could be
implemented similarly.

Bill
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