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Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:45:00 +0300

> From: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:26:25 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I started a replace-string command that is taking too long (the
> file is much bigger than I had realized).  How can I tell Emacs to
> abort the operation?  Ctrl-G is not doing it...

If C-g does not abort a prolonged operation, it's a bug in Emacs.
Please report that (with the details necessary to reproduce the
problem) to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  All potentially prolonged
operations absolutely must listen to C-g.




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