In article <84isyfas6t.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai Großjohann wrote: >Barry Margolin writes: > >> I thought I answered this in my earlier post: You're running "more" or >> "less", which uses "q" as the command to exit. > >It is, however, somewhat surprising that running any command in a >shell buffer makes C-x k and C-c C-c and so on fail to work. What makes you think they're failing? They're sending the usual signal to the program running in the shell buffer. Some applications handle this signal. differently from others. Many interactive applications use SIGINT (what C-c C-c sends) as the way to get back to their prompt, rather than terminate the program completely, and I think less is like this. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.