bug#32502: 27.0.50; Tramp; C-g during asynchronous remote find-file kills Emacs

[Michael Albinus]

Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com> writes:

> I don't understand why this is so complicated.  Why not just have the
> thread show a message, instead of having it send a signal which gets
> translated into an event that makes the main thread show a message?

With thread-handle-event, the main thread could decide to react on the
signal/event.

> Also, if we eventually implement one of the proposals in emacs-devel to
> allow threads other than the main one to accept keyboard input, then
> there would be no guarantee that putting the event in the keyboard
> buffer would get it to the main thread.

We'll see. The event-based implementation was easy to do; it would also
be easy to change.

Best regards, Michael.