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From: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs 18.55 under X11 on SCO UNIX
Keywords: C-G processing
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.030352.26408@tah386.manhattan.ks.us>
Date: 2 Feb 90 03:03:52 GMT
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Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of EECE, Manhattan
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I am trying to run GNU Emacs 18.55 under SCO Xsight, X11R3 for SCO
UNIX, on a '386 PC.The problem I am having is very simple.  SCO UNIX
does not have FIONREAD or SIGIO so the interrupt input stuff does not
work.  This means that Emacs cannot assynchronously detect the C-g
key.  It is very frustrating to be executing an Emacs command that
takes a long time to execute, and not be able to interrupt it.

I suppose I could write an event filter that would send Emacs a signal
every time I pressed a C-g.  The problem is, Emacs would have to 
get all its Xevents from the filter.  Any better ideas?  

-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
Work:  terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry
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