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From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why does ^G sometimes not work?
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:17:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qZOdnSdzoJ9RtCDUnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@posted.cpinternet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3207.1237105380.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Samuel Wales wrote:
> I often use ido to complete outline paths in org.  It works well, but
> sometimes it takes a very long time.  But ^G does not stop it.
> 
> The computer grinds to a slow.  top says that Emacs is taking half of
> CPU and Safari is taking the other half.  So it's in a tight loop (and
> so is some advertisement on Safari, probably).
> 
> I was hoping that ^G would stop anything that emacs does.
> 
> GNU Emacs 22.2.1
> Carbon
> 
> Are there any signals I can send to make it stop without crashing?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Look at C-h r s quitting If esc esc esc doesn't work try C-] or M-x 
top-level. If none of these work then you will probably have to kill the 
Emacs process with the OS.


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2009-03-15  4:48 why does ^G sometimes not work? Samuel Wales

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