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Re: Failure to Interrupt with ^C

#543
From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:46
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irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes:

>Several revisions ago, if I made a mistake using nn I was able to
>hit ^C (Control-C), my "intr" character, and it would abort the
>operation (shell command spawn, followup (before getting to vi), or
>whatever.

I'm not sure what you were running, but for me, Ctrl-G will abort just
about anything while still in NN.  If you go to the editor it won't
work, of course, but if NN is asking a question and you just want to
back out entirely, Ctrl-G will do it.

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Message-ID: <1993Jan26.174652.10478@rei.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
References: <1993Jan25.210922.28425@Happy-Man.com>

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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Failure to Interrupt with ^C
Message-ID: <1993Jan26.174652.10478@rei.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:46:52 GMT
References: <1993Jan25.210922.28425@Happy-Man.com>
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