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Exactly. Funny thing is, quitting is just 'q', or classic ctl-c! Searching is ctl-S. Also, I can't remember which pretty basic utility has a manpage that inde
by AceJohnny2 10y ago
Exactly.
Funny thing is, quitting is just 'q', or classic ctl-c! Searching is ctl-S.
Also, I can't remember which pretty basic utility has a manpage that indeed redirects to the info page... which is just a copy of the manpage, down to the including the 'see Info page for more'. That said, that may be a packaging issue or just a good old documentation fail.
- ansible 10y agoSearching is ctl-S. Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-S are still bad choices for commands. Why? Some terminals support flow control via XON/XOFF, which is Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q. Back in the day, with a serial terminal running at 9600 bps, a human had fast enough reflexes to stop and start the screen output. These days, no so much. Heck, we had an incident just last week where one of my coworkers froze his output screen via Ctrl-S, and I told him about Ctrl-Q to unfreeze it. It's funny how long some of this stuff hangs around, long past its useful time. Ah, compatibility. Or cruft.
- eriknstr 10y agoEvery now and then I somehow manage to enter Ctrl-S into urxvt and freeze it, still don't know how I do that. Anyway, each time I have to Google "urxvt frozen" to find what to do.
- AceJohnny2 10y ago> Why? Some terminals support flow control via XON/XOFF, which is Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q. Except if the app opened the terminal in raw mode, in which case the app gets the control character.