[ale] shell question

[J. D.]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Chris Kleeschulte <
chris.kleeschulte at it.libertydistribution.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
I am reading it now. Good stuff Chris thanks.


>
> 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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