Kill a handler

[Roger Eller]

We don't want to kill the IDE, just stop the handler that is stuck in a
loop.  The kill command would still lose all unsaved work.

~Roger

Sent from my Android tablet
On Mar 30, 2014 10:00 AM, "Kevin Miller" <kevin at runrev.com> wrote:

> There is an alternative to command-. on Mac which will often, though not
> always rescue you when you¹re deep in handler stack you can¹t break out of.
>
> Get the process ID from Activity Monitor. Then run:
>
> kill -sighup processID
>
>
> E.g. if LC has PID 9382:
>
> kill -sighup 9382
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kevin
>
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>
> On 29/03/2014 21:24, "Mark Schonewille" <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Craig,
> >
> >When I do a simple test, like
> >
> >repeat forever
> >   put the seconds
> >end repeat
> >
> >it works, but when I am in the middle of a project, testing a handler
> >that gets caught up in an endless loop and forgot to save for a few
> >hours, it never works. I have no idea why it doesn't. There must be
> >going on with handlers that are more complicated or that require more
> >CPU power.
> >
> >--
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> >On 3/29/2014 16:53, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> >> Mark.
> >>
> >>
> >> I do this all the time. Somehow I never seem to get my gadgets running
> >>perfectly the first time. Not sure why this is.
> >>
> >>
> >> But I never have a problem with cmd-period. What happens to you?
> >>
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >
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