From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interrupting computations using signals
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 15:53:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83cztge1i6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cff2c889-3347-b312-5bd2-10942b53a04a@daniel-mendler.de> (message from Daniel Mendler on Mon, 24 May 2021 14:32:05 +0200)
> From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:32:05 +0200
>
> If Emacs is running in GUI mode, I can interrupt computations by
> pressing `C-g` (keyboard-quit). Is there also a possibility to submit
> such an interrupt from outside, via signals or via another mechanism?
Yes, read about sigusr1 and sigusr2 in the ELisp manual.
> I've read something in the manual about SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 but I could not
> get these handlers to work in an Emacs running in daemon or batch mode.
Show us the code.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-24 12:32 Interrupting computations using signals Daniel Mendler
2021-05-24 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-24 14:08 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 15:12 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-24 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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