Interrupting Jade

It is often useful to be able to tell Jade to quit whatever it is doing and wait for more commands; this is called interrupting Jade. When the editor receives an interrupt signal it will abort what it is doing and rewind itself back to the inner-most recursive edit (see see section Recursive Editing).

The interrupt signal differs with the operating system being used,

• Under Unix the SIGINT signal is used, this can be sent via the intr character (get the editor into the foreground of the shell it was started from and type Ctrl-c in the shell's terminal), or directly through the kill shell command. For example, look at the following shell session extract,

  /var/src/jade/man$ ps
    PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
     60  1 SW    0:02 (xinit)
     87  1 S     0:08 fvwm
    127 p0 S     0:00 /bin/bash
    155 p0 S     0:04 jade
    156 p1 S     0:00 /bin/bash
    159 p1 R     0:00 ps
  /var/src/jade/man$ kill -INT 155
  

  First the ps command is used to find the Jade process' pid (155), then the kill command is used to send the INT signal to this process.
• The Ctrl-c signal is also used on Amigas, either type this in the console window that Jade was launched from or use the break (or possibly breaktask) command to send the signal.

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