Re: How to stop find-grep-dired?

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     >     How do you stop a command like `find-grep-dired'? I tried C-g and 
>     >     M-ESC-ESC but none of them worked. I looked in the menus, but I found 
>     >     nothing obvious there. (I did this on w32.)
>     >
>     > Since the buffer fills asynchronously, C-g won't stop it.
>     > Killing the buffer should do so.  Does that work?
>
>     It does, but suppose you want the information that is already there? 
>
> What is the motive for wanting to stop the process?
> What harm does it do to let the process keep running?
>   
On a slow computer it takes a lot of CPU and it can take long time.

> Does M-x kill-grep kill the process for find-grep-dired?
> If not, I think we should make it work.
>   
kill-find does, but kill-grep is not defined after just find-grep-dired.