[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 14:33:10 CDT 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> I don't know if changing readline would break anything or not.  Seems 
> like it shouldn't.  Probably most people just aren't going to care about 
> changing it though.
> 
> Chet Ramey is the maintainer of readline, and his email is chet at po.cwru.edu.
> 
> Maybe you could ask him.
> 
> The readline homepage is
> 
> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html
> 
> However, keep in mind that when Chet was told about a bug that caused 
> bash to suspend even when it was the only thing running, he said two 
> things (summarized):
> 
> 	- don't do that
> 	- you can always use another window to send the sleeping bash
> 	  a SIGCONT
> 
> Fortunately, someone else patched bash to not suspend itself in the 
> offending situations, which is what tcsh does.

I used to use tcsh, but I've been really getting into zsh lately.

Anyone know how zsh will behave in these situations?

Peace...  Sridhar



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