Re: How to stop find-grep-dired?

[Miles Bader]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> Do you know why comint doesn't bind C-c C-k to comint-kill-subjob?
> Are there any reasons not to do so?

It's almost always the wrong thing to use, especially for a typical
comint process [*], so having a handy binding by default seems like
asking for trouble.

[*] (1) It send SIGKILL, which is a last-ditch emergency measure, not
        the way you should ordinarily stop a process
    (2) Because it sends a _signal_, rather than using pty, it will kill
        the sub-shell rather than the foreground process, in the case of
        a shell session (not to mention a telnet session etc).

-Miles
-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.