On 2023-01-21 21:19:06 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Jan 2023 at 03:50:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. > > But nothing happens. > > I presume that's because the input buffer is already full, so > you'd need what I think they called an out-of-band signal, > like pressing Break used to do on an old teletype terminal.
Why doesn't the terminal have a function to flush and discard the input buffer or have some reserved space for the intr and quit characters? Or automatically increase the size of the input buffer? > > Is there any way to avoid this issue? > > Make sure that the application's data is saved, eg, ^X^S in emacs, > but don't exit the application, eg, ^X^C in emacs. > > Then click on the X that closes the xterm window, which takes > down both xterm and the application with it. This is effectively > an out-of-band signal. This is what I've sometimes done until now, but in general, I don't want to lose the work I've done in the shell, such as temporary variable settings or things related to the background jobs. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
