Re: Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ray Hixson wrote:

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of
> 2003-10-25 on darkstar.local.
> I use shell-mode constantly within emacs for example to tail log
> files. The problem I'm having with this release is that Control-C
> Control-C does not kill the tail.
> And any other running process from that shell cannot be killed as
> well.


If your platform has the pkill command, you could work around the problem

with something like:


M-! pkill -x tail


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Kevin Rodgers