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Re: undo in shell buffer?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: undo in shell buffer? |
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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:43:01 -0500 |
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In article <mailman.4363.1231456397.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
"Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:21, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> >> I find m-r to be inconvenient in the shell buffer, because you have to
> >> press ret. i also find it inconvenient that cycling the command line
> >> history wraps around instead of stopping. Yet perhaps I would have to
> >> get used to things in term, like moving around to copy stuff. And my
> >> prompt isn't working in term yet.
> >>
> >
> > There are essentially three different methods to interact with a 'shell'
>
> I found another drawback of shell mode. For some reason, at least
> when it is running su, c-c c-c and c-c c-z do not send the signals.
That's because you can't send signals to a process running under a
different userid. To get the effect, you need to send the actual
control character, so type C-q C-c RET or C-q C-z RET.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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