From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32629 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2005 17:55:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32619 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Aug 2005 17:55:28 -0000 Received: from relay00.pair.com (HELO relay.pair.com) (209.68.1.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:55:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 39062 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2005 17:55:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.123.1?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 20 Aug 2005 17:55:27 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.126.76.52 Message-ID: <43076BB6.7060903@kegel.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:55:00 -0000 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Rossi CC: Michael Veksler , Greg Law , gdb@sources.redhat.com, Julian Smith Subject: Re: Using C-s to forward search command history References: <4305DACB.7010604@greglaw.net> <20050820132023.GA20235@white> In-Reply-To: <20050820132023.GA20235@white> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 Bob Rossi wrote: >>This is a terminal feature that interferes with your C-s use, >>it is not a readline issue. Bzzt. Programs that want to accept commands like control-s are supposed to put the terminal into raw mode. The readline library does this. If it didn't work, something's wrong. > That's interesting. Is the (stop/start) ^s/^q feature of the terminal > even useful these days? Why is it defaulted on? Yes, it's useful. I use it every other day or so when a program is spewing lots of output; I hit ^s, then I can scroll back without having it scroll to the end every time the program outputs something else. - Dan -- Trying to get a job as a c++ developer? See http://kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html