Re: Doing Linux admin work with Emacs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8762x6jnde.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>,
 pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:

> There's one problem when launching a command with sudo in M-x shell: you
> cannot kill it with emacs C-c C-c, since emacs runs as a normal user, it
> cannot kill the sudo'ed process.

You can kill it by typing C-q C-c RET.  This sends a literal C-c to the 
shell's terminal, instead of Emacs sending a signal to the process.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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