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Re: HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-|
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Barry Margolin |
Subject: |
Re: HELP! breaking an infinite loop in M-| |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:48:04 GMT |
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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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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