Stop Sublime Text from executing infinite loop

Question

When I do something like

while True:
    print('loop')

and execute that code in sublime I am not able to stop it. I have to manually kill the process and restart sublime.

Is there a way of setting some kind of 'max_execution_time' or any other workaround which allow us to stop this nicely?

Answer 1

You want to use Ctrl+Break. For your own information, just go check under Tools in Sublime Text and you'll see Cancel Build and the above hotkey. It'll work just fine for infinite loops. Suffice to say, I've had the same happen! ;)

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For Windows users, there is no Break key, so go into Preferences>Key Bindings and change the line

{ "keys": ["ctrl+break"], "command": "cancel_build" }

to a different shortcut, such as Ctrl+Alt+B

Answer 2

For me (on Linux), there is no break key on the keyboard and this shortcut was somehow bound to a different combination: ctrl+alt+c.

You can find where it is bound in the Tools menu:

After interrupting your script you should see the text [Cancelled] printed to the sublimetext console.