Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:09:55 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: swell.k@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inserting flow-control chars with an mpsafetty kernel Message-ID: <3a142e750808260609mbaf18fbr624b305401cf5667@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8763po58y9.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <87fxot5hoi.fsf@kobe.laptop> <86myj0xdou.fsf@gmail.com> <8763po58y9.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On 8/26/08, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:45 +0400, swell.k@gmail.com wrote: >> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: >>> Hi Ed, >>> After installing the mpsafetty changes it seems that flow-control ^S >>> and ^Q characters cannot be inserted inserted anymore. I first >>> noticed this when CTRL-S stopped working as 'search-forward' in >>> Emacs, but it seems the same problem exists in /usr/bin/vi, vim, bash >>> and a few other programs that I tested. >>> >>> With a kernel before the mpsafetty changes, I can fire up /usr/bin/vi >>> and type in insert-mode `^V^S'. This correctly inserts a ^S >>> character. With a kernel from svn revision /head@181939 ^V no longer >>> quotes the next byte in vi(1) and other programs. >> >> Could you possibly be trying to type them inside screen(1)? If so, are >> they working correctly outside it? > > Yes. I was using screen when I tried this. Now that I tried outside of > screen, C-s and C-q work in Emacs and ^V^S or ^V^Q works in /usr/bin/vi. ^V^S and ^V^Q do not work in vim from console (no screen(1) here). (I think it worked before) > > Is this a known bug of screen? Are there already patches floating > around to fix it? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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