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To:	Sam Fans <sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: how to make it stop?
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1992 01:43:41 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <92Dec4.014401est.2516@groucho.cs.psu.edu>

In lesser editors, like emacs, one can hit ^G to interrupt an operation
that is taking a long time.  It turns out that sam takes a very long
time to process
	,x v/^#//viewpoint/+-
on a buffer containing /etc/termcap, but there doesn't seem to be any
way to make it give up.  The menus have stopped working, and ps says
it's blocked writing to a socket, so it's probably deadlocked.  Sigh.