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dave-mlist@bfnet.com writes:

> dave> I see "contacting..."  and "1k..." and then "Mark Set" and then
> dave> nothing.  When I try to Ctl-g out of it, nothing happens.  My WS
> dave> load average goes to 1.  I have to kill emacs to get out.
> 
> ZSH> I think it is because URL package is not sensitive to `C-g'.
> 
> Is there any way to break out of it without killing emacs?

Well, it is usually in a spin of (while ... (accept-process-output process
1)), and if that is not interruptible, it is a bug in emacs.  This should
be less of a problem since everything in the new package is asynch by
default and doesn't do silly things like those asynch loops.

-bp