[ale] shell question

[J. D.]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/12/11 J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com>:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > There are some curious key combinations in bash I was wondering about.
> > Pressing ctrl-s seems to freeze the terminal but silently it appears to
> > still be accepting input. Pressing ctrl-q breaks this behavior and
> > everything returns to normal. Does anyone use this? I'm sure it has
> caused
> > people trouble thinking their terminal is locked. I have only used ctrl-q
> > from to regain my terminal after accidentally hitting ctrl-s. :)
>
> Those are not bash items - they are for the terminal window, and as
> Mike indicated, were for flow control.
>
> For more background, look up stuff on the ASCII control characters -
> and the ASCII names
>

Cool deal, I'll do it.


>
> Ctrl-g is a favorite
>
>
I tried this one but got nothing. What does it do? I like ctrl-u (clear to
beginning
of line) and ctrl-d (for xterm population control).


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