From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:48:04 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <U8Pqb.407$lK3.393@news.level3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3363.1068160722.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.3363.1068160722.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote:
>I sent some perl code to M-| that, unfortunately, seems to be in an
>infinite loop. Emacs isn't responding. How can I get it to break the
>loop?
Control-g is almost always the way to abort or interrupt things in Emacs.
When you're running a shell command, the first time you press it it will
say "Waiting for process to die...(type C-g again to kill it instantly)".
Press it again and you should be back.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), 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.
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2003-11-07 15:48 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-11-07 17:16 ` HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-| Gareth Rees
2003-11-06 23:17 Dan Anderson
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