From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why does ^G sometimes not work? Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:17:38 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237135324 710 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2009 16:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:42:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 15 17:43:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LitQm-0000Tc-Ue for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:43:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LitPQ-0007j3-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:41:56 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.cpinternet!news.posted.cpinternet.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:16:11 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.61.220.223 Original-X-Trace: sv3-yeHyf8R/H4OvqH4QuS3CDMOrysimd1MNpSOLEhhXbrTC4imNbYGcabftY7IKYNq9fIVDz1RfbYUtPRL!2wz21/lyaATiLFrN3QxicNcJktETOSMSEiirjJrXdFBnncicu21JZmLc9NGQfGg/HIoVZ+LIphIc!vfhw6eyTYgKkqOJho8s= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167636 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62936 Archived-At: 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.