Re: Input next command(s) while current is running

[Mohamed Jebali <amxmodx.unloco@gmail.com>]

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Thank you for your clarification

Best regards

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:26 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:15 AM Mohamed Jebali
> <amxmodx.unloco@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My suggestion is to pause the output of the current command when I'm
> typing and then resume it when I either hit enter or escape.
>
> This has nothing to do with the shell and everything to do with the
> terminal (or emulator) that you are using.
>
> While a foreground command is running, the shell is entirely stopped,
> waiting for that command to finish. It does not see or react to your
> keystrokes.  Even the ^C interrupt is processed by the terminal
> (strictly, the terminal and its I/O driver) and translated into a
> signal sent to the foreground command.
>
> So when you "type ahead" it is the terminal that is collecting and
> buffering your keystrokes, which are then finally read by whatever
> first asks for more input, which is the shell if and only if the
> foreground command never wants to read from the terminal.
>
> You wouldn't want the behavior you've described during an editor
> session, for example, or a pager.
>

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