oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:

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> David Lesher (wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
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> : In any case, it looks as if I end up back in less, as I should. But I
> : hit a command, and it ACTS as if I'm still in vi! Parts of the screen

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> This is not specific to less/vi. Try useing elm, and starting emacs,
> and then typeing control-G. emacs doesn't exit by elm wakes up! chaos!

Aha! So that's what happened to me this morning.  I recently changed my
.emacs file so F12 is save-buffers-kill-emacs where it used to do that
with F10... duh... F10 is now find-file.  Anyway, I forgot that (even
though I made this nice reference card for my keyboard) and when I tried
to cancel (hit C-g C-x C-c) I got chaos just as you said.  I don't
remember exactly what I did to get out of them both, but I did manage
it.

I thought that maybe I had miskeyed a C-z when I was reaching for the
C-x, but apparently not.

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> As far as I am aware, this is actually a problem with bash. Bash is a
> little silly about intercepting signals in the background, and so it
> exits, so less/elm think that vi/emacs has exited, and so it starts
> reading the keyboard. Not wonderful.
> 
> As yet, I haven't managed to find a patch for bash that will fix the
> problem. anyone???

Hear, hear!  I'd hate to have to write an elm.el just to avoid this
in the future... :-)

BTW:  If anyone wants to know what their various function and cursor
keys send (easily), just start emacs and type C-q and then the key... it
works great and is less filling.

Pete C.


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