bug#49700: 27.2; [PATCH] Refactor minibuffer aborting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: <miha@kamnitnik.top>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, 49700@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:26:21 +0200
> 
> > Thanks, but could you please explain the rationale and the motivation
> > for these changes?
> 
> Refactoring to have cleaner code.
> 
> Right now, without applying this patch, quitting multiple recursive
> edits (in minibuffer-exit) is achieved by extra special handling in
> internal_catch.  In my opinion, it's cleaner to avoid adding such code
> into a core function like internal_catch if possible.  This patch moves
> this code into the function minibuffer-exit, and by using closures, it
> achieves the same effect without a global variable
> (minibuffer_quit_level).
> 
> In other words, without this patch, Fminibuffer_exit cooperates with
> internal_catch through a global variable.  And with this patch,
> Fminibuffer_exit cooperates with command_loop by passing it a closure.
> 
> Fminibuffer_exit was moved to lisp because its easier to make closures
> in lisp.
> 
> minibuffer-alist was introduced because it's needed by minibuffer-exit.
> I also think that it's nice to expose the list of minibuffers to lisp.

Thanks.

I'd prefer not to expose minibuffer-alist to Lisp if it can be
avoided.  This is a tricky area of Emacs, and exposing it to Lisp IMO
gives Lisp programmers too much rope to hang themselves.  Is it
feasible to make these changes without exposing the alist?