From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it? Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082876502 20093 80.91.224.253 (25 Apr 2004 07:01:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 25 09:01:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BHddx-0008MW-00 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:01:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BHddC-0004Rl-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 03:00:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 69 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1082876225 21970 166.84.1.3 (25 Apr 2004 06:57:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:57:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122683 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17971 In article , David Combs wrote: >Want to see something funny? > >(Ok, not so funny, then.) > >Within *shell*, do "man ". > ... Ok, sorry -- that one you can get out of via ^C^C. But I do get into situations where I *cannot* get out via ^C^C. Here, I got into one a couple of days ago, couldn't get out of it (the ^G situation), so I renamed *shell* to something, and made a new *shell*. Here's some cut-n-pasted output from the renamed buffer: 152 ==/dkcjunk==> 152 ==/dkcjunk==> 152 ==/dkcjunk==> 152 ==/dkcjunk==> ls -d /opt/sfw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/man /opt/sfw/netpbm/man /opt/sfw/webmin/caldera/man /opt/sfw/webmin/man /opt/sfw/webmin/mscstyle3/man /opt6/usr/demo/SOUND/man /opt6/usr/demo/link_audit/man /opt6/usr/java1.2/man /usr/demo/link_audit/man /usr/j2se/man /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/man /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/man j2se/ 152 ==/dkcjunk==> 152 ==/dkcjunk==> ls -d /opt/sfw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/man /opt/sfw/netpbm/man > foo44.out 152 ==/dkcjunk==> spellgrep forecast  152 ==/dkcjunk==> 152 ==/dkcjunk==> h  152 ==/dkcjunk==> echo foo      152 ==/dkcjunk==> echo lll  152 ==/dkcjunk==> (Oh, here's the alias for the spellgrep (done in a non-broken shell-buffer): 276 ==/dkcjunk==> alias spellgrep /myexternals/opt/gnu/bin/egrep -i !* /usr/dict/words 277 ==/dkcjunk==> ) Anyway, up with the ^G's, any time it wants to output a line to the screen, you get these ^G's. Any clues? (I'll keep that bad buffer/window around, in case someone wants me to try some experiment in it. Note: I'll probably look for posts here more often than I run email and have to face all that spam...) Thanks! David