emacs is an extremely powerful, high-functionality, feature-rich
text editor. This means that it is a
CPU pig, and overly
complex.
If you find yourself stuck in this gordian knot CTRL-ALT-META-verse, never fear. Come back to this node, and enter the following simple keystrokes:
- CTRL-Z
- ps auxww | grep emacs | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
There. All fixed!