<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/12/11 J. D. <<a href="mailto:jdonline@gmail.com">jdonline@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Hey all,<br>
><br>
> There are some curious key combinations in bash I was wondering about.<br>
> Pressing ctrl-s seems to freeze the terminal but silently it appears to<br>
> still be accepting input. Pressing ctrl-q breaks this behavior and<br>
> everything returns to normal. Does anyone use this? I'm sure it has caused<br>
> people trouble thinking their terminal is locked. I have only used ctrl-q<br>
> from to regain my terminal after accidentally hitting ctrl-s. :)<br>
<br>
</div>Those are not bash items - they are for the terminal window, and as<br>
Mike indicated, were for flow control.<br>
<br>
For more background, look up stuff on the ASCII control characters -<br>
and the ASCII names<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Cool deal, I'll do it.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Ctrl-g is a favorite<br>
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</font></blockquote><div><br>I tried this one but got nothing. What does it do? I like ctrl-u (clear to beginning<br>of line) and ctrl-d (for xterm population control).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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