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Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?


From: Uli Kutzscher
Subject: Re: How to stop time-consuming operations?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:52:09 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.11

On 19 26 Thu May 25?, kj wrote:
> 
> 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...  (I have a lot of
> other buffers open, so I'd really prefer not to kill Emacs altogether.)
> 

Maybe M-x kill-buffer does the job? 

hth, Uli






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