I run the following code unsuccessfully
sudo killall %4
where %4 is my Vim session.
How can you terminate a job without foregrounding it?
I run the following code unsuccessfully sudo killall %4 where %4 is my Vim
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I run the following code unsuccessfully
sudo killall %4
where %4 is my Vim session.
How can you terminate a job without foregrounding it?
I believe you want “kill” instead of “killall”. I tested under tcsh like this:
Furthermore, I doubt this would work with sudo because sudo would invoke a new shell, wouldn’t it? And in that shell, %4 would not be defined.
If you really need to sudo, you can try this: