On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Gavin Troy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > 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 ;) > Great information! Thank you. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Gavin Troy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course exclusive of S-nail, which is far too actively developed, > considering the upcoming changes regarding imap! ;) I had heard of nail, but not S-nail. Interesting! I was looking through the website and development seems quite active. Hopefully, S-nail will replace mailx as the default command-line mail program for most distributions. Thanks again!
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