Re: [spe-users] Three Newbie Issues

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On 5/1/06, Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Am 2006-05-01 um 11:50 schrieb Todd O'Bryan:
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> >> Doing Ctrl+Shift+E runs the file. But I strongly advice [against]
> >> letting
> >> students use this, as if they define an infinite loop, SPE will
> >> block.
> > I'm a little unsure about your last point, though. First, I'm
> > assuming you advise NOT to let students do this. Does running the
> > file in the shell work differently than running it with the Run
> > command? In other words, does an infinite loop only run infinitely
> > in the shell?
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> If you must kill a loop (i.e. the process), you must kill SPE (and
> perhaps loose changes in other open files) if you run from SPE (in
> the same process).
Thanks Henning! To repeat: if you run a program with an infinite loop
with Ctrl+R (or toolbar button) you can kill it by pressing Ctrl+R
again. If you load an infinite loop in the shell there is no way to
kill the program.Therefore all programs should be run with Ctrl+R and
only small, safe code snippets should run in the shell as they block
SPE during execution.That's why students should use Ctrl+R.

> Otherwise you can kill the shell and leave SPE running.
This is confusing, you can not kill the shell. You can kill scripts
running with Ctrl+R

Stani

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