From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: "Renaud Casenave-Péré" <renaud@casenave-pere.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interrupting an emacs server from outside emacs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:49:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj1nytrh.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc6j2ks6.fsf@sandalphon.hinata3.co.jp> ("Renaud \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Casenave-P\=C3\=A9r\=C3\=A9\=22's\?\= message of "Thu, 16 May 2013 21:04:25 +0900")
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On Thu, May 16 2013, Renaud Casenave-Péré wrote:
> I am trying to control emacs from outside, and while it is quite easy to execute
> a command using emacsclient --eval, if that command is stuck for whatever
> reason, I would like to be able to interrupt it, as I would type C-g from emacs,
> but remotely.
>
> for example, if I execute this from a terminal:
>
> emacsclient -e "(sleep-for 50)"
>
> I would like to be able to cancel the sleep command from the terminal like this:
>
> emacsclient -e "(keyboard-quit)"
>
> or something. Being called keyboard-quit, I know it wasn't designed to be used
> from the terminal, but this being emacs, surely there is way? Using emacsclient
> or with unix signals, or something else.
>
> Does anybody know such a trick?
IIRC, it has already been discussed on this list.
I think you're looking for `debug-on-event' which by default allow you
to send SIGUSR2 to emacs to get a debug backtrace.
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Julien Danjou
// Free Software hacker / freelance consultant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 12:49 UTC|newest]
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2013-05-16 12:04 Interrupting an emacs server from outside emacs Renaud Casenave-Péré
2013-05-16 12:49 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2013-05-16 13:10 ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
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