[ESS] How to kill a SAS batch job

[Rodney Sparapani]

Daniel Muenz wrote:
> Hi all, I have two questions related to killing SAS batch jobs which were
> submitted with ESS.
> 
> 1.  Is there an ESS command or some easy way within Emacs to kill a SAS
> batch job?  Say a program I submitted with ESS has been running longer than
> I think it should and I just want to kill it, what's the easiest way to do
> this?  Just as I have F3 bound to submitting the code, it would be great if
> I could have some other key bound to killing it.
> 

No there isn't and I don't see an easy way to do such a thing.  Just go 
to the *shell* buffer and kill it.  That's why they are submitted 
through the *shell* buffer; so that you can interact with them when 
necessary.

> 2.  When I exit Emacs, is there a way to automatically kill all running SAS
> jobs which were submitted through ESS?  If I have another copy of Emacs
> open with its own submitted SAS jobs, I don't want those to be affected,
> and similarly if I've got an xterm window open with SAS jobs running.
> 

No.  In fact, the opposite is what is usually wanted since some SAS
jobs can take days or weeks to finish.

> Thanks very much for all your help -- this list has been a great resource,
> Daniel
>