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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by Anderkent on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:33AM (#10478422)
Well, it might still run but it lets you out of the editor, which is the goal here. You can just kill -9 it afterwards.
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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by mcguire on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:57PM (#10478975)
If you have good reflexes, you can type "^Z" right after "kill -9", before the syscall to send the signal is executed.

Legend has it that, if you do, you bring on the Singularity immediately.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-... by dllthomas on Saturday October 31, 2015 @03:17AM (#10482079)
There is no reason for -9 here - all the major unix editors happily exit on SIGTERM.
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