CTRL-Z to Toggle Inverse does nothing
Bill Campbell
bill at celestial.com
Thu Jul 17 20:01:17 PDT 2008
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Fairlight wrote:
>Is it just me, or did Bill Campbell say:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Frank Schenkhuizen, Jr. wrote:
>> >Like I said before, I haven't changed anything in my system for years, now I
>> >have an opportunity to spend some time enhancing a few things. The CTRL-Z
>> >always worked just fine before, now it does nothing.
>> >
>> >I this also something that may have been affected when moving to SCO Rel.
>> >6.0? Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? It does not function on
>> >the console and I've tried several TERM settings to see if that would help
>> >on my PC's.
>>
>> The ctrl-Z only works with shell that support job control,
>> /bin/ksh, /bin/bash, but not /bin/sh. Perhaps your old system
>> had /bin/ksh or /bin/bash linked to /bin/sh?
>
>Erm... I'm confused on what you're thinking, Bill.
>
>^Z only works -as SIGSUSP- in shells with POSIX job control. The OP is
>talking about fP's ^Z inverse text toggle not working--which would only
>work inside a shell -without- POSIX job control. Under those shells, you
>have to remap either fP's key, or set SIGSUSP to something else with stty.
Not being an FilePro user/programmer, I was not aware of that.
>If he says it does nothing, then neither is working. I'd think he'd notice
>a "Suspended" notice that, and not just say it does nothing.
When we were doing a lot of Unix classes, it was amazing how many
people's ``vi'' sessions ended with ctrl-Z instead of ZZ so there
would be multiple suspended editing sessions (not using vim which
would have warned of the .swp file :-).
Bill
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