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From: Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: interactive keybinding to abort all input?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:22:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3my4tmw8t.fsf@klanderman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <090915202054.ZM3044@torch.brasslantern.com> (Bart Schaefer's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:20:54 -0700")

>>>>> On September 15, 2009 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> The problem is, I believe, that the input is buffered up by xterm, so
> what you need is a keystroke to cause *xterm* to discard all pending
> input ...

>>>>> On September 15, 2009 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure this is zsh fault. It is entirely possible that X terminal 
> is busy processing selection and starts to act on ^C only *after* entire 
> buffer has been pushed to child.

OK, this (unfortunately) makes sense.. and even the xterm 'hard reset'
action does not seem to clear the input buffer, nor do any of the
signals it seems to accept.

thanks,
Greg


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 19:40 Greg Klanderman
2009-09-16  3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-09-17 15:22   ` Greg Klanderman [this message]
2009-09-16  3:21 ` Andrey Borzenkov

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