From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
Subject: Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:05:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyix4v5q.fsf@smolny.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e550d1$90f$1@reader1.panix.com
Quoth kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>:
> How can I tell Emacs to abort the operation? Ctrl-G is not doing
> it... (I have a lot of other buffers open, so I'd really prefer not
> to kill Emacs altogether.)
I don't think there is a way, other than killing the Emacs session.
However, 9 times out of ten Emacs exits cleanly when killed, i.e.,
auto-saves are performed if needed.
Then all you have to do to restore all your buffers (and their
contents) is:
M-x recover-session
and answer 'yes' a few times.
sdt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 19:26 How to stop time-consuming operations? kj
2006-05-25 20:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-25 22:05 ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
2006-05-26 6:52 ` Uli Kutzscher
2006-05-26 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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