From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Mastro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X11 signal to emacs Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:32:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490305021 17703 195.159.176.226 (23 Mar 2017 21:37:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Perry Smith To: Emacs Help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 23 22:36:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1crAPe-0003wD-IC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:36:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crAPk-0001Co-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crALH-0006gE-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:32:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crALG-0002Sk-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22b]:35519) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crALG-0002Sd-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id x35so186928253qtc.2 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:32:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=rOXY36kQEOBWkLkXlIEicKH7GO3tP+4dUtHrxxMXh9g=; b=W1JIW7l+vsqki7F5djU2rsUgu96JjrJSD9u/91cWQ1lbRvhIT/6GbYZ+S4u/41yAj3 kudUbQ7rPQ2Z97xjJTlFK3G4ENvmGglLSQ5fScg3f9fX3QFnXD7NUhRpLEPMcisiVRt3 hbkPI/KU/kU5MnSLVT3VVDKHXYqXCykJsTFLsuDFsLcCYHz6OobCg4sNP5ZFLmTUeKpg 0HwOFrqLZFcDeWW6mjE9AQ15h7bBC666RPMGTP+IKdD8aaoLNdKlhUNhmt+YJhhltRVX gviazM/+K1PbhcS8hFx9HqLiLmsaMvCio0Nj1cvezhwsEH2R+yC2c3ENFdYxW5wFvIX2 xGPA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=rOXY36kQEOBWkLkXlIEicKH7GO3tP+4dUtHrxxMXh9g=; b=dJBJaqFO3RYd1DLjuAOFa72y3neXEZBU2CVzC5rXu2L2yq6ZgAdYS4mC/2ZOMhmPH5 ojlRa+UIE4nsYeeLbgQtmxDx1zooI9eSBYtGpkO/RENxyw2RMpdQ/I2DFbrY1kP64UQC RSPRA60TZD5u5oJePx+Nv2VbWeOxt3FqdpbCooBhKyd1ma2A/+pNHjco4im7KGb/ICSg CBRrq8jPKGWZmbbe58LVf1+nJR/ZJa8aEZc4qzcRQkyTZFKIv2Jt9rBwKlDElA4li3ah 8vhfuxcA6etzB4eiwSDaQkJEJNpP2iEoo+Zd/zqnnFvALLE9nebjSeioCUPs9lpiNsqU sGbA== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H2mEKE80LV3A75TwpvqUfSuqTsZjAygf61B7w3Frtc7F0vYk/AkApnfzydJ6BwUPYc3IwrB9Si7amcjlQ== X-Received: by 10.200.58.101 with SMTP id w92mr5072167qte.292.1490304741536; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.237.49.162 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:32:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22b X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112641 Archived-At: Perry Smith wrote: > I'm on AIX but lets assume I'm on a "normal" platform because I'm hoping it > will be the same. > > I'm using emacs (25.1) as an X11 client. > > Right now, for some reason, my emacs gets stuck. What I'd like to do is > send it a signal from a separate terminal. I can do that but in all cases, > emacs just exits. I've tried SIGHUP, SIGINT, and SIGTERM. > > Is there a way to send a signal to emacs that emacs will catch and get out > of whatever loop it might be in at the time? So far, I have not been able > to find a method to do that. Try sending SIGUSR2, which instructs Emacs to try to break out of its current loop and into the Lisp debugger. John