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Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it? |
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Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:04:50 -0400 |
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In article <c6flqh$3kb$1@panix3.panix.com>,
dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
> Want to see something funny?
>
> (Ok, not so funny, then.)
>
> Within *shell*, do "man <something>".
>
> Yes, exactly that way. No, *not* via M-x man.
>
> At least if you're me (running 21.2.1), emacs gets
> all screwed up trying to display a man-page into *shell*,
> you get this ^G.
>
> Hit <return>, you get one line of the man-page,
> and another ^G.
Type "q" followed by RETURN.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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