HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|

HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|

[Dan Anderson]

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?  

Thanks in advance

-Dan

Re: HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|

[Barry Margolin]

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.

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Re: HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|

[Gareth Rees]

Dan Anderson 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?

C-g

-- 
Gareth Rees