avr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed) (07/20/90)
In article <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes: > Whenever I do a bang substitution within vi (eg, !!ls) > on my 3b1, I get the appropriate substitution, with the following error > message prepended to the text: > stty: : Not a typewriter > What's going on & how do I get rid of it? Most likely, you are using ksh and do an stty, directly or indirectly, in your $ENV, which is carried out whenever !! invokes ksh. To fix, use something like the following in your $ENV: case $- in *s* | *i* ) # your interactive stuff, stty etc., goes here ;; esac Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (07/20/90)
In article <1990Jul20.032240.29834@cbnewsj.att.com> avr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed) writes: >In article <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes: >> stty: : Not a typewriter > >Most likely, you are using ksh and do an stty, directly or indirectly, >in your $ENV, which is carried out whenever !! invokes ksh. To fix, >use something like the following in your $ENV: > >case $- in *s* | *i* ) > # your interactive stuff, stty etc., goes here >;; >esac > Or you can employ my favorite bit of horrendousness in your .profile: export Envfile=$HOME/.env export ENV='${Envfile[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}' (I have been accused of using Korn shell as an apl interpreter :-) ) -- When considering "victim's rights," remember || vv Tom Neff that an innocent defendant is also a victim. ^^ || tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) (07/21/90)
In article <1990Jul20.032240.29834@cbnewsj.att.com> avr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed) writes (in connection with running interactive stuff only when standard input is coming from a tty): > case $- in *s* | *i* ) > # your interactive stuff, stty etc., goes here > ;; > esac > > Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com Can you explain what's going on here? Looks as if the arg string sent to the forked ksh contains a "s" or an "i" if the shell is interactive. Why is that? My solution comes from something posted a couple of years ago. In your .profile, stick the lines: START=~/.kshrc ENV='${START[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}' Then you put commands in your .kshrc that you want to have executed iff the shell is running interactively. (Please don't ask me what the "ENV=..." command means, but I can dig it up from the original message if enough folks really want to know. I think the idea is that the ENV environment variable, which tells ksh where to read commands from when it starts up, either gets set to ~/.kshrc or to the null string, depending on some stuff that determines whether the shell is running interactively or not.) -- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
donlash@uncle.uucp (Donald Lashomb) (07/21/90)
In article <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes:
=Whenever I do a bang substitution within vi (eg, !!ls)
=on my 3b1, I get the appropriate substitution, with the following error
=message prepended to the text:
=
=stty: : Not a typewriter
=
=What's going on & how do I get rid of it?
=
=I hesitate to ask such a trivial question on the net, but
=this has been going on for three years now, and I'm tired of it.
=Thanks.
=--
=Paul Kirkaas
=kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu
Are you using ksh? If so, try looking in your
ENV file ($HOME/.kshrc usually) for a stty command.
Try moving the offending stty command to .profile
hope this helps,
-Don donlash@uncle.UUCPavr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed) (07/22/90)
In article <756@gnosys.svle.ma.us>, gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes: > In article <1990Jul20.032240.29834@cbnewsj.att.com> > avr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed) writes > > (in connection with running interactive stuff only when standard input > is coming from a tty): > > > case $- in *s* | *i* ) > > # your interactive stuff, stty etc., goes here > > ;; > > esac > > > > Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com > > Can you explain what's going on here? Looks as if the arg string sent > to the forked ksh contains a "s" or an "i" if the shell is interactive. > Why is that? RTFM. "$-" contains the current flags, not the arg string. And if the shell is interactive, the s flag or the i flag (or both) must be set. > My solution comes from something posted a couple of years ago. > In your .profile, stick the lines: > START=~/.kshrc > ENV='${START[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}' > Then you put commands in your .kshrc that you want to have executed > iff the shell is running interactively. (Please don't ask me what > the "ENV=..." command means, but I can dig it up from the original > message if enough folks really want to know. I think the idea is > that the ENV environment variable, which tells ksh where to read > commands from when it starts up, either gets set to ~/.kshrc or to > the null string, depending on some stuff that determines whether > the shell is running interactively or not.) Apart from being illegible, your "solution" is weak: if any of your aliases define useful filters, you may wish to use them from within vi. I can do that. Can you? Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com