I always like to be able to hit ESC in order to stop a long process from continuing .... either to break an endless loop or just to stop and see what has happened so far.
An example: I just did an XPath Query for
//text//list//text which should have been
//text//list//text{} which I spotted after I pressed Enter. So I had to wait for it to process the whole Query before I could use computer .... it is so resource intensive you can hardly do anything else while you wait.
At 13.43 31/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Jim Albright"
>
>I always like to be able to hit ESC in order to stop a long process from
>continuing .... either to break an endless loop or just to stop and see
>what has happened so far.
>
>An example: I just did an XPath Query for
>//text//list//text which should have been
>//text//list//text{} which I spotted after I pressed Enter. So I had to
>wait for it to process the whole Query before I could use computer .... it
>is so resource intensive you can hardly do anything else while you wait.
Currently an XPath query can be stopped only after a result has been
retrieved; in this case, the query will not return anything, so it isn't
stoppable.