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From: "Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans]  Does sam accepts interrupt signal
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:12:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b954b2060803270812p63863829q23edbf036afbbf8e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

The UNIX standard editor ed, which also exists in Plan 9, accepts the
interrupt signal.  When it listens an interrupt signal, ed will print
a `?' and  returns  to  its command level.  Frankly, it is a very
convenient feature since the user could not loose himself, especially
for a line editor.  But it seems that sam does not handle the
interrupt signal.

I have encountered such a case several times: after operating for a
long time when both mouse language and command language are used
together, sam appears to forget the state (in fact it's I that forget
it) and treat my input as plain text.  In this case, no matter putting
a single dot or completing with a `/' could not save me.  As a result,
I usually have to look backward in command window to see what exactly
the last command is.  Well, I know it may be my fault encountering
such problems.  But I think it could be simply solved if sam's
operations could be asynchronously interrupted.

So, is there a feature like this in sam, which I ignored?  Or, is
there any other better method to solve similar problems?

Thanks :-)

--
HZ


             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-27 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-27 15:12 Hongzheng Wang [this message]
2008-03-27 15:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-03-29  5:03   ` Hongzheng Wang

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