Re: c-g in emacs locked in other terminal?

[joakim@verona.se]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> joakim@verona.se writes:
>
>> I use the emacs feature to attach to a running emacs server in multiple
>> clients a lot. Sometimes I do m-x in one of the terminals, forget about
>> it, and then try to use emacs from some of the other terminals, which are
>> now unresponsive. If the original terminal where i did an unfinished m-x
>> is not readily available, its pretty hard to get out of this state.
>>
>> I've been using this feature since it was called mtty-emacs, but I've
>> never figured out the correct procedure to get out of it, except
>> attaching to the original terminal, and doing c-g there.
>>
>> Any hints? The most convenient would be to configure c-g to just break
>> all terminals, if possible.
>
> Input is not handled from other terminals during a recursive edit (or
> more precisely, inside single-keyboard mode, which is turned on then and
> in some other similar situations.)
>
> I don't understand why it has to work that way, but it's a known problem
> with no fix.  See admin/notes/multi-tty.

Thanks!
>
>
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Joakim Verona
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