Package: bash
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: important
Situation:
1. xon/xoff flow control is enabled by default:
$ stty -a | grep ixon
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
^^^^
2. Ctrl-S makes the terminal block since it is the stop character and
ixon is enabled. I claim to block after Ctrl-S makes no sense for
interactive terminals. See man 3 termios and 3.
3. The bash man page says:
"To find other matching entries in the history list, type Control-S
or Control-R as appropriate"
Unfortunately with the current terminal settings this doesn't
work. The terminal blocks as described in 2.
4. Ctrl-Q resumes input to the terminal, as specified in man 3
termios.
To summarize:
Some package (not sure if bash), should disable xon/xoff flow control
to avoid it to clash with functionality offered by other programs (in
this case bash).
I.e. the default should be:
$ stty -ixon
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -ixon -ixoff
^^^^^
With this setting bash shows after pressing Control-S:
(i-search)`':
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.14 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
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