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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:44:06 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), chris@chris.netmonger.net, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, ports@FreeBSD.org, sprice@hiwaay.net
Subject:   Re: C-g, emacs and 2.2/3.0 
Message-ID:  <199704270744.PAA04711@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 09:13:56 %2B0200." <19970427091356.OR27745@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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J Wunsch wrote:
> As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > >...although i remember that Peter afterwards admitted that the fix
> > >might indeed have been correct.  Nobody ever dared to decide about it.
> > >
> > >Steve, i'd rather suggest you putting the fix back...
> > 
> > I'm certain it wasn't correct.
> 
> In which way?  Please, get in contact with Steve, so a real fix can be
> done.

The biggest problem was that it interacted very badly with certain 
important things, eg: make.  ie: you press ^C and the jobs that make is 
running split off and keep running in the background.  I seem to remember 
that another problem was how it interacted with shell 'for' loops etc.

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

Cheers,
-Peter





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