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jsp@betz.biost.washington.edu:

    Not a bug, but perhaps nonoptimal:

    There appears to be no way to abort a tags-search once started,short
    perhaps of kill -9.  In particular, ^G appears to have no effect.

rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu:

    As far as I know, C-g does abort tags-search.
    What version are you using, and what machine?
    Every bug report needs to state those things.

jsp@betz.biost.washington.edu:

DAMN.  My apologies.  Machine is RS/6K running AIX 3.2 (judging from
/usr/lpp/bos/README -- I forget IBM's official way to list version#),
emacs is 18.58 installed by myself (meaning possibly bozoed), my notes
on the installation being:

    -------config.h-----
    #include "s-aix3-2.h"
    #include "m-ibmrs6000.h"

    #define HAVE_X_WINDOWS 1
    #define HAVE_X_MENU 1

    ----------lisp/site-init.el----
    ; If the '(cdr ...)' is left off,
    ; we get a spurious "../lisp" we don't want:
    (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/emacs/lisp/local" (cdr load-path)))
    ----------build/install command----
    as jsp:
      make all
    as root:
      make install.aix

Following up on rms's comment

    "As far as I know, C-g does abort tags-search."

it appears that in fact ^G works just fine in a normal AIXWindow,
which is what I get if I telnet to the machine, and fails only when
emacs is running in an X window.  For example, if I log in on the
console and 'emacs', I get an X window emacs that won't obey ^G.  If,
from exactly the same console window, I instead telnet to the same
account and run emacs (implies same version of emacs, same
initialization files, same files operated on), I get an emacs that
works just fine.

This is, therefore, likely a combination of my and AIXWindows
stupidity:  there's something generally funny about my install of
emacs here when it comes to X, the mouse-sensitive stuff has never
worked in this install -- I just get a beep -- which is almost
certainly some idiocy on my part because I've seen emacs installs
running just fine on same version of AIX/AIXWindows.

Sorry to waste your time :(.