Michael Convey <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Paul. Control-C worked as indicated in the man page. If the man page > could be updated to make this more clear, others will likely benefit. >
My take would be that the author was simply mistaken in calling it RUBOUT. It is misleading, though most mailx users are likely to recognize what is meant by "interrupt character". Ctrl-c has this common purpose of abort/kill across much of unix. FYI, mailx is not quite "actively developed", to put it mildly, so the manual is unlikely to be updated. > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > > > by default your unix probably sets rubout to ETX (ctrl-C). > > --scott > > > I think this wording will only add to confusion. Ctrl-c is never going to be rubout, and rubout (delete) isn't going to kill the letter. > Thanks Scott. I see that you are equating 'Ctrl+C' to 'EXT'. Just curious, > what does 'EXT' stand for? The only reference I can find to 'EXT' in the > context of an interrupt is the following: > > http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~hanson/UNIX/InterruptsDictionary.html > > This implies that EXT stands for "External Interrupt". Is that right? At > that webpage, 'EXT' is always followed by (CR). Is "(CR)" applicable to EXT > in your context? Also, in another source, I saw EXT used to mean "Kernel > Extension". Is that relevant here? It is apparently ETX, End of Text. These names aren't particularly meaningful in modern unix. http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/telecom/codes/ascii.html You should be familiar with the usual behaviours of ^C, ^D, ^S/^Q, ^Z, and ^\ in particular, mostly so you don't hit them accidentally ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ nail-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nail-devel
