exitnow should exit to the calling shell.  Can you provide an example 
where is does not?  And also I may have missed it, but which platform?

event "e"
should exit at the end of te cycle as far as I know

==John ff

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, rmgls wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> sorry to change the thread but i am facing another problem related to exitnow.
> 
> when called  by event , exitnow does not return to the shell (bash).
> i must kill the terminal  to restore the situation.
> 
> so, my question? 
> is there a way to exit properly,  without  exitnow?
> 
> i am aware of ctrl-d.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Raoul
> rmgls@orange.fr
> 
> 
>