Re: How to stop find-grep-dired?

[Juri Linkov]

>> Do you know why comint doesn't bind C-c C-k to comint-kill-subjob?
>> Are there any reasons not to do so?
>
> It's almost always the wrong thing to use, especially for a typical
> comint process [*], so having a handy binding by default seems like
> asking for trouble.
>
> [*] (1) It send SIGKILL, which is a last-ditch emergency measure, not
>         the way you should ordinarily stop a process
>     (2) Because it sends a _signal_, rather than using pty, it will kill
>         the sub-shell rather than the foreground process, in the case of
>         a shell session (not to mention a telnet session etc).

It could ask for confirmation.  Or behave in a similar way as C-g used
to stop a running command, i.e. to wait for the process to die, and
another C-c C-k again could kill it instantly.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/