Re: Q: How to programatically terminate repeat-mode

[T.V Raman]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

will try your suggestions. Would be nice to have  a simple API to do
this.

>> I have been using repeat-mode to good effect in emacspeak e.g. in the
>> context of its media player etc.
>>
>> One issue  I have is that once a command to stop media has been
>> executed, I'd like the repeat to stop i.e. without me executing
>> another explicit kbd command like C-g to terminate the repeat.
>
> The simplest way is just not to put the property 'repeat-map'
> on the symbol of the command that stops media.  Then executing
> this command will terminate the repeat.
>
>> How do I do this from lisp?
>
> It's no easy to do the same from Lisp because in repeat-post-hook
> the value of 'exitfun' returned from 'set-transient-map' is not
> exposed outside.  Maybe the value of 'exitfun' should be stored
> in a variable?  Currently 'exitfun' is used only by repeat-exit-timer.
>
>> I'd rather not call keyboard-quit  explicitly -- that sounds like
>> overkill?
>
> Or you could put 'repeat-exit-key' on 'unread-command-events'.

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Thanks,

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