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Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?
From: |
Sebastian Tennant |
Subject: |
Re: How to stop time-consuming operations? |
Date: |
Thu, 25 May 2006 23:05:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Quoth kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>:
> How can I tell Emacs to abort the operation? Ctrl-G is not doing
> it... (I have a lot of other buffers open, so I'd really prefer not
> to kill Emacs altogether.)
I don't think there is a way, other than killing the Emacs session.
However, 9 times out of ten Emacs exits cleanly when killed, i.e.,
auto-saves are performed if needed.
Then all you have to do to restore all your buffers (and their
contents) is:
M-x recover-session
and answer 'yes' a few times.
sdt