On 2023-01-22 15:35:08 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > input from that point forward.
They are actually not ignored, but delayed by the terminal emulator. This is an issue because Ctrl-C (the intr character) is normally taken into account immediately (with a SIGINT generation), even if earlier characters have not been read yet by the command. And this is apparently the same for the other special characters as defined by stty. -- 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)
