carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (02/24/90)
--- Copy of a letter to the mrcnext sys adm (ME) ---
From: A disgruntled user...
....When you set stty kill to a certain anything it remembers
all previous settings. Example, I presently have it set to control-u but
want it to be control-? the delete key. I can change it to it but it remembers
the control u which just happens to be the right arrow key on my computer which
happens to be right next to the back arrow key, and being the terrible typist
that I am I often hit the right arrow instead of the left and I then lose the
whole line. It only fouls up when trying to change the kill -- all the others
work fine. Any suggestions?
--- My response (I myself like ^U just fine) ---
Hmmm, I saw a similar problem with erase in 0.8, but I though they fixed
it. The problem has nothing to do with stty, it is a bug/feature in csh.
To implement some fancy tricks, the csh shell does some input
editing (like ^H) itself (see CBREAK mode in tty(4)).
Thus csh has its own idea of erase and kill chars, separate from
the tty driver. In the new OS, csh was able to keep in sync with
the effects of "stty erase" commands, but I guess they missed fixing
the kill char. Basically, csh will remember the OLD setting for kill.
Thus both the old and new kill char will work. (I tested this.)
The work-around for this ain't easy. Basically, you have to change the
kill setting, and then RELOAD the shell (exec csh). Not a pretty sight.
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Brad Carlson <carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> or <brad-carlson@uiuc.edu>
University of Illinois--Micro Resource Center--NeXT guru eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (02/25/90)
In article <800034@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >To implement some fancy tricks, the csh shell does some input >editing (like ^H) itself (see CBREAK mode in tty(4)). > Basically, csh will remember the OLD setting for kill. >Thus both the old and new kill char will work. (I tested this.) >The work-around for this ain't easy. Basically, you have to change the >kill setting, and then RELOAD the shell (exec csh). Not a pretty sight. Also overkill. Try stty ...whatever...;set term=$term -=EPS=-