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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: kill current app -- what keys?
Message-ID: <1991May30.194327.25333@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 30 May 91 19:43:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: mmm.1991May30.194327.25333
References: <1991May27.075632.6097@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> <1991May28.085131.23077@fwi.uva.nl> <2224@seti.inria.fr> <1991May29.202849.15414@verity.com>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <1991May29.202849.15414@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>One thing to keep in mind when doing the command-option-escape quit is
>that it won't always kill the top application.  Instead, like MacsBug,
>it will kill whatever application is swapped in at the time.  Pay
>attention to the appname in the little dialog or you may end up
>killing the wrong one.

Odd; when I switch to the Finder and hit CMD-OPT-ESC, I get a dialog
asking if I'd like to kill the _next_ application in the list, NOT the
Finder.  I.e. if I have GIFConverter and 4th Dimension open (opened in
that order) and switch to the Finder, then press CMD-OPT-ESC, the dialog
says "Kill GIFConverter?", not "Kill Finder" as I might expect.

Or am I hallucinating?  When I tried this repeatedly I could not get the
Finder to show up as the application to be killed.
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