goldman@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Ken Goldman) (09/17/85)
HW - Valid workstation running 4.1BSD: Due to a keyboard which reverses the CTRL and SHIFT keys, users (including myself) occasionally type ^Z^Z instead of ZZ to write and exit from vi. This hangs the terminal - all characters are echoed but none have any effect, not even ESC or ^C or ^D. The only solution is to kill the process from another terminal, losing the editing session. Anyone have a better way out?
cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) (09/18/85)
In article <480@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> goldman@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Ken Goldman) writes: >Due to a keyboard which reverses the CTRL and SHIFT keys, users (including >myself) occasionally type ^Z^Z instead of ZZ to write and exit from vi. >Anyone have a better way out? :x -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego {ihnp4|decvax|akgua|dcdwest|ucbvax} !sdcsvax!mplvax!cdl
root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (09/22/85)
>From: goldman@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Ken Goldman) >Due to a keyboard which reverses the CTRL and SHIFT keys, users (including >myself) occasionally type ^Z^Z instead of ZZ to write and exit from vi. >This hangs the terminal - all characters are echoed but none have any >effect, not even ESC or ^C or ^D. The only solution is to kill the >process from another terminal, losing the editing session. > >Anyone have a better way out? Yes, send a HANGUP (kill -1 pid) to the top level shell on the terminal and you'll probably be able to log back in and recover with a 'vi -r'. (I know, you wanted a fix to VI, sorry, but this should help till it comes.) -Barry Shein, Boston University