From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: c-g in emacs locked in other terminal? Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:12:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87ilojcxlc.fsf@tanaka.verona.se> References: <878rphdojx.fsf@tanaka.verona.se> <87czetc4hc.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6183"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5frHwQAxnS/rSEnQDzamzJcJl4k= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 17:14:03 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o6ZOE-0001Nb-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:14:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43842 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6ZOD-0004Q7-HD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6ZND-0004PY-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6ZNB-0005Op-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o6ZN8-000AT4-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:12:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138196 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: > joakim@verona.se writes: > >> I use the emacs feature to attach to a running emacs server in multiple >> clients a lot. Sometimes I do m-x in one of the terminals, forget about >> it, and then try to use emacs from some of the other terminals, which are >> now unresponsive. If the original terminal where i did an unfinished m-x >> is not readily available, its pretty hard to get out of this state. >> >> I've been using this feature since it was called mtty-emacs, but I've >> never figured out the correct procedure to get out of it, except >> attaching to the original terminal, and doing c-g there. >> >> Any hints? The most convenient would be to configure c-g to just break >> all terminals, if possible. > > Input is not handled from other terminals during a recursive edit (or > more precisely, inside single-keyboard mode, which is turned on then and > in some other similar situations.) > > I don't understand why it has to work that way, but it's a known problem > with no fix. See admin/notes/multi-tty. Thanks! > > -- Joakim Verona joakim@verona.se