escaping out of emacs

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vuminh : 08/07/02 03:06 PM : Incident created -   I'm using emacs in the shell. I accidently hit some button now it display this at the lower left hand corner "^X". I tried ctrl-X then ctrl-s to escape, and ctrl-X then ctrl-Z. None worked so far, is there any other ways to kill it?
dufour : 08/07/02 05:20 PM : Reply received -   in another session, as root : #ps -ef | grep emacs root 27696 27489 0 17:25 pts/6 00:00:00 emacs look the PID of the emacs process (first number) and kill the process #kill 27696 if doesn't work, force the kill : #kill -9 27696 If this help, please close the incident...
vuminh : 08/07/02 08:00 PM : More info provided -   i'm not under X or KDE, just under the command shell.
omagere : 09/07/02 12:21 AM : Reply received -   ctrl-g is the way to cancel in emacs. It should get you out of trouble
vuminh : 09/07/02 03:00 PM : Incident closed -

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