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Interrupting a Command
You can interrupt a command by pressing
Ctrl-G, the default abort key. For example, you can use Ctrl-G
to stop an incremental search on a very long file if you don't feel
like waiting. You can set the abort key with the set-abort-key
command. If you interrupt Epsilon while reading a file from disk or
writing a file to disk, it will ask you whether you want to abort or
continue. Typing the abort key also cancels any currently executing
keyboard macros.
In the DOS version, the <Scroll Lock> key also acts like the abort
key.
Aborting normally only works when a command checks for it. When
writing a new command in EEL, you may wish to stop it even though it
contains no checks for aborting. In the DOS version, you may use the
Control-<Scroll Lock> key to start the EEL debugger. You can
then press <Scroll Lock> to abort from the command. As with
<Scroll Lock>, you cannot bind a command to the
Control-<Scroll Lock> key.
In the OS/2 version of Epsilon, pressing Control-<Scroll Lock> makes
a list of options appear at the bottom. You can choose to start the
EEL debugger, abort the current command, exit the editor immediately
(without warning if your buffers contain unsaved changes), or
do nothing.
Standard bindings:
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