emacs is my default editor.

it looks like if you send emacs a SIGINT, it will clean up nicely and
terminate with a return code of 0.

if i run a bts command that drops me into my editor in an X11
environment, emacs spawns as a separate window, while my shell is
blocked by the bts invocation (as it should be).

if i hit ctrl-C in the shell, though, apparently bts passes the SIGINT
through to my editor, and then proceeds to use the contents of the
message as prepared.

I expected ctrl-C to terminate the bts report rather than sending it
in.

here's me starting to close #770592 by mistake, realizing that wasn't
correct and trying to abort it:

0 dkg@alice:~$ bts done 770592 2.1.1-1
^C0 dkg@alice:~$

(the leading 0 in my prompt is the return code of the previous
command)

unfortunately, this actually did close #770592, which i didn't intend.
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

That seems like suboptimal behavior.  Exiting due to a signal doesn't
seem like a "successful" exit.

It seems emacs isn't very consistent about this.  Running emacsclient to
connect to an existing daemon means that frame exits with an exit code
of 130, as expected.  Running a standalone “emacs -nw”, SIGINT gets
caught and doesn't exit.  Running a standalone X emacs frame does exit
cleanly as you describe.

Yes, Perl ignores SIGINT/SIGQUIT while running the external process, so
that process gets the signal.  I'll adjust bts to inspect the exit code
of the process so it doesn't treat a non-zero exit code as success.
However, emacs will need to be fixed to not exit with a zero when
killed.

As an alternative, you can tell bts to cancel by saving an empty file.

Cheers,

Dear submitter,

as the package emacs24 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/871627

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

Control: reassign -1 emacs25 24.4+1-4.1
Control: found -1 25.2+1-5

Since the issue hasn't actually been fixed, reassigning to the emacs25
package.

Cheers,