From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 20 21:13:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13339 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13334 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA10331; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:12:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981020220950.06c1aca0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:12:45 -0600 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , "Steve Friedrich" , "Studded" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: No terminal echo after certain commands Cc: "bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981020222556.01047304@207.227.119.2> References: <4.1.19981020191142.06b355b0@mail.lariat.org> <199810210058.UAA30643@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:25 PM 10/20/98 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >By now one should have found using 1 keystroke "q" easier than a >combination "CTL-c". Perhaps. But ^C is programmed into many folks' fingertips. ESPECIALLY UNIX hackers. It's the correct way out of many, MANY things. >Doug's point is along line that only a novice would try this and hopefully >read the man page and learn about the "q" exit command. Sometimes I do use "q". However, using ^C should be acceptable as well. Restoring echo on the terminal is not a time-consuming operation or one that's going to fail unless the system is crashing. >At least it doesn't want escape-enter. ;) That's a minor relief.... ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message