From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it? Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085532219 20215 80.91.224.253 (26 May 2004 00:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 00:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 26 02:43:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSmW3-0004iP-00 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 02:43:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BSlh4-0002dq-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2004 19:50:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1085528734 7767 166.84.1.1 (25 May 2004 23:45:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:45:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123441 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18740 In article , Barry Margolin wrote: >In article , > dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote: > >> Want to see something funny? >> >> (Ok, not so funny, then.) >> >> Within *shell*, do "man ". >> >> Yes, exactly that way. No, *not* via M-x man. >> >> At least if you're me (running 21.2.1), emacs gets >> all screwed up trying to display a man-page into *shell*, >> you get this ^G. >> >> Hit , you get one line of the man-page, >> and another ^G. > >Type "q" followed by RETURN. > >-- >Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu >Arlington, MA >*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** I've tried it -- it seems to do nothing: 224 ==/dkcjunk==> dirs /dkcjunk /opt6/myexternals/home/dkc/4msnew /big5/david3/from_netcom-dir2/sources-stuff/lynx2-8-5/src 225 ==/dkcjunk==> pushd /home/dkc; cd . /home/dkc /dkcjunk /opt6/myexternals/home/dkc/4msnew /big5/david3/from_netcom-dir2/sources-stuff/lynx2-8-5/src 226 ==/home/dkc==> egrepin -c tck *.mss | egrep -v '\.mss:0$' sundgrep.mss:1 sundgrep_orig.mss:1 227 ==/home/dkc==> popd; cd . /dkcjunk /opt6/myexternals/home/dkc/4msnew /big5/david3/from_netcom-dir2/sources-stuff/lynx2-8-5/src 228 ==/dkcjunk==> alias xalias 'printf "At startup, su(ck)-in one .smd "subcommand"-file:\n (NOTE: below, "su" is ok-abbrev for suck-in ("source") cmd "subcommands t.smd",\n meaning "read in the sub-commands located in subcommands-file t.smd")\n At startup, "su" EITHER: cuffs.smd OR tools.smd\n (should be local indir-symlinks *thru* /home/dkc/4msnew/{cuffs,tools}.smd)"' 228 ==/dkcjunk==> xalias qq q q Q q q  q  See just above, my "g", several of them. Does nothing, I think. ----- Any other suggestions on recovering a seemingly-"destroyed" *shell*-buffer that's gotten (apparantely irretrievably) sucked into the ^G^G^G,,, snakepit. thanks, David