From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X11 signal to emacs Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:21:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490898140 10287 195.159.176.226 (30 Mar 2017 18:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:22:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 20:22:14 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 1ctehu-0000uY-9C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctei0-0003G2-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cteha-0003Fk-TW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctehW-00080w-Fa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37964 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctehW-0007zw-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ctehG-0005Kn-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:21:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ncucmllw2TOzUJtNtzBYCzpIJOM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112668 Archived-At: Perry Smith wrote: > 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. Evaluate these, then evaluate the commented-out in-Emacs test or run the shell command. (If you are a bash user syntax may vary slightly.) (defun signal-usr1-f () (interactive) (message "Got signal: USR1") ) (define-key special-event-map [sigusr1] #'signal-usr1-f) ;; test: ;; ;; from emacs: (signal-process (emacs-pid) 'sigusr1) ;; ;; from zsh: kill -s usr1 $(ps -e | grep emacs | cut -d " " -f 2) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 69 Blogomatic articles - with: #moasen @ irc.freenode.net 6667