Re: question on Ctrl-C

[Dieter Wilhelm]

"song chang" <songchang@hotmail.com> writes:

> I started a shell (cygwin/bash) under emacs, and run a "tail -f". Now I want 
> to stop the tail process. Ctrl-C doesn't work and Ctrl-G doesn't work either. 

Please try either M-x terminal (instead of M-x shell) for running
"tail -f" (or better "less -F") or even better: Open the respective
file with the CVS Emacs 22 and use the auto-revert-tail-mode.

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>     From:  "dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net>
>     To:  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>     Subject:  Re: question on Ctrl-C
>     Date:  23 Aug 2006 19:02:25 -0700
>     >
>     >song chang wrote:
>     > > I am using GNU emacs 21.3.1 and cygwin/bash shell on Win 2000. Ctrl-C 
> or
>     > > Ctrl-C Ctrl-C doesn't kill the process. I also tried different 
> combinations,
>     > > for example Ctrl-Q Ctrl-C etc, none works. Any idea? Thanks.
>     >
>     >Song, I'm not exactly sure what you are asking looking at the other
>     >responses. If you simply want to stop a process that was started in
>     >Emacs, try C-g. That's the usual way to do that in a Linux environment.
>     >Are you trying to shut down Emacs? Good luck--Douglas
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    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany