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and subject line Bug#388084: dselect freezes upon pressing CTRL+S
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.13.21
Severity: normal
dselect freezes upon pressing CTRL+S. It doesn't respond to keyboard
commands any more and needs to be killed with kill -9.
This is particularly annoying since in Midnight Commander, CTRL-S is the
search shortcut to jump to a certain file, which I use a lot.
I have not found any reference to CTRL+S having a particular function in
dselect, so I assume this behaviour to be a bug. It would be nice if
CTRL+S would just be ignored, or better, be an alias for "/" to enter
search mode.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-andi
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.21 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.5-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
dselect recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Quoting andi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> CTRL+Q does indeed unlock the freeze.
>> I didn't know about this "terminal scroll lock/unlock" feature.
>> Still, I wonder if I am the only one who fell into this trap.
>
> You are not....but others (including myself in an old past) didn't
> report it.
same here, it is just part of the unix learning curve
>> As a wishlist item, maybe something could be done about this
>> "trap"?
>
> Well, I don't think so. Ctrl-S is handled by the terminal so this
> comes before dselect can process it.
It is also useful for examining non-fatal messages before they scroll
off the screen or out of the display buffer.
The "stty" program can be used to change this behaviour, although the
manpage is rather sparse and the texinfo doc is not available so I
can't really help with better info about how to do that.
- Bruce
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