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From:  Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To:  "song chang" <songchang@hotmail.com>
CC:  dsoliver@earthlink.net, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:  Re: question on Ctrl-C
Date:  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:44:36 +0200
>"song chang" <songchang@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > I started a shell (cygwin/bash) under emacs, and run a "tail -f". Now I want to stop the tail process. Ctrl-C doesn't work and Ctrl-G doesn't work either.
>
>Please try either M-x terminal (instead of M-x shell) for running
>"tail -f" (or better "less -F") or even better: Open the respective
>file with the CVS Emacs 22 and use the auto-revert-tail-mode.
>
  From:  "dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net>
> >     To:  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >     Subject:  Re: question on Ctrl-C
> >     Date:  23 Aug 2006 19:02:25 -0700
> >     >
> >     >song chang wrote:
> >     > > I am using GNU emacs 21.3.1 and cygwin/bash shell on Win 2000. Ctrl-C or
> >     > > Ctrl-C Ctrl-C doesn't kill the process. I also tried different combinations,
> >     > > for example Ctrl-Q Ctrl-C etc, none works. Any idea? Thanks.
> >     >
> >     >Song, I'm not exactly sure what you are asking looking at the other
> >     >responses. If you simply want to stop a process that was started in
> >     >Emacs, try C-g. That's the usual way to do that in a Linux environment.
> >     >Are you trying to shut down Emacs? Good luck--Douglas
> >     >
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>
>     H. Dieter Wilhelm
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