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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 20.3-b9: fix for [bug] no keyboard input was accepted....
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > The cause of this and the similar lossage when you pass the mouse
 > > over some string in customize buffers is read-only text being
 > > poked into the echo area buffer and making the message clearing
 > > code fail.
 > 
 > Hmm, but how does this cause the complete breakdown of
 > keyboard-reading?  Why doesn't C-g and C-G work?

Anything that wants to write to the echo area, (Fsignal, the
command loop, the help echo code) will bomb.  And since the echo
area can't be used for error messages, it will all bomb silently.

