From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:04:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-C8F79B.10045025042004@comcast.ash.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c6flqh$3kb$1@panix3.panix.com
In article <c6flqh$3kb$1@panix3.panix.com>,
dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
> Want to see something funny?
>
> (Ok, not so funny, then.)
>
> Within *shell*, do "man <something>".
>
> Yes, exactly that way. No, *not* via M-x man.
>
> At least if you're me (running 21.2.1), emacs gets
> all screwed up trying to display a man-page into *shell*,
> you get this ^G.
>
> Hit <return>, you get one line of the man-page,
> and another ^G.
Type "q" followed by RETURN.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-25 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-25 6:28 is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it? David Combs
2004-04-25 6:57 ` David Combs
2004-04-25 14:04 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2004-05-25 23:45 ` David Combs
2004-05-26 4:31 ` Barry Margolin
2004-05-26 22:00 ` David Combs
2004-05-26 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-27 5:49 ` David Combs
2004-05-27 6:56 ` Barry Margolin
2004-05-27 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-28 8:22 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-25 17:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-25 6:31 ` David Combs
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