[ale] shell question

[Chris Kleeschulte]

This is sort not related to your topic, since you are speaking about  
terminals (pseudo or real), but I wrote a post on shells that some  
might find useful. It sort of breaks down shells and environment  
variables. My hope is to instruct converts to bash-ish shells.

http://kleeschulte.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-environment-variables-really-work.html


Chris

On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:07 PM, J. D. wrote:

> 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. :)
>
> Also having scrolllock enabled on from switching computers on a kvm  
> creates the illusion of a lockup since the terminal is in a  
> scrolling mode.
>
> Best regards,
>
> J. D.
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