Re: Interactive job control and looping constructs

[Jonathan Hankins]

If this behavior (ignore with warning one or more Ctrl-Z keypresses during loops before eventually backgrounding) was desirable, there may be code that could be borrowed from IGNOREEOF handling (I haven't looked at it).

-Jonathan Hankins

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote:

Thanks for your reply.  I am glad to hear that this is already on the wish list,
although I appreciate it is not straightforward to implement.

A stopgap might be to make Ctrl-Z do nothing when the currently running command is a loop or other flow control construct.
Instead it would print a message explaining that only the current subprocess would be interrupted, and saying to hit Ctrl-Z again if that is what you really wanted.  I hope this might go some way to making things less confusing, and be relatively quick to hack up.

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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>

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