Re: feature request lftp should respond to Ctrl-Z
Hello, I got the following feature request: http://bugs.debian.org/158772 It would be nice if lftp would be stopped by Ctrl-Z, when at entered at its command prompt. thx. To freeze lftp? Or to get back a command shell? If it's to get a command shell, then do '!'. If it's to freeze it, well... I don't see the point of doing that ;-)
Re: feature request lftp should respond to Ctrl-Z
On Mon, 14 Okt 2002, Nicolas Noble wrote: It would be nice if lftp would be stopped by Ctrl-Z, when at entered at its command prompt. To freeze lftp? Or to get back a command shell? If it's to get a command shell, then do '!'. If it's to freeze it, well... I don't see the point of doing that ;-) Its to get a shell. The default in shells is to use Ctrl-Z so the runing job will go into the backgroup and you have your shell back. The point is to use the shell job management. -- Noèl Köthe
Re: feature request lftp should respond to Ctrl-Z
It would be nice if lftp would be stopped by Ctrl-Z, when at entered at its command prompt. To freeze lftp? Or to get back a command shell? If it's to get a command shell, then do '!'. If it's to freeze it, well... I don't see the point of doing that ;-) Its to get a shell. The default in shells is to use Ctrl-Z so the runing job will go into the backgroup and you have your shell back. The point is to use the shell job management. Don't forget that there is a built-in job management into lftp: you can start multiple downloads, stop each of them using Ctrl-Z (that's why you can't CTRL-Z lftp: it catch the signal for this feature) and resume each of them using 'wait' or 'fg'. (by default, in lftp, when you CTRL-Z a download, it goes on background, it doesn't freeze) Maybe this can be done, yeah, for example by disabling the signal handler when it goes back to the prompt, and re-enabling it when a job goes foreground. Might be an idea.
Re: feature request lftp should respond to Ctrl-Z
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:24:02PM +0200, Nicolas Noble wrote: It would be nice if lftp would be stopped by Ctrl-Z, when at entered at its command prompt. To freeze lftp? Or to get back a command shell? If it's to get a command shell, then do '!'. If it's to freeze it, well... I don't see the point of doing that ;-) If you have an ftp session opened but aren't actually downloading, it might be useful (just as it is with any other program). Type suspend. It *will* stop running tasks, though. lftp isn't multithreaded. -- Glenn Maynard
Re: feature request lftp should respond to Ctrl-Z
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:42:50PM +0200, Nicolas Noble wrote: It would be nice if lftp would be stopped by Ctrl-Z, when at entered at its command prompt. Its to get a shell. The point is to use the shell job management. Don't forget that there is a built-in job management into lftp: you can start multiple downloads, stop each of them using Ctrl-Z (that's why you can't CTRL-Z lftp: it catch the signal for this feature) and resume each of them using 'wait' or 'fg'. (by default, in lftp, when you CTRL-Z a download, it goes on background, it doesn't freeze) though the only program known to me that does not respond to C-z is pine (you can turn it off/on there afaik) and so the behaviour of lftp is a bit unusual, i think in the shell-like way of using lftp, the actual situation is quite good. of course an option to enable/disable it would be worth an idea. e.g.: set suspend-mode X 0.. as it is 1.. responds to C-z btw, there's also the command suspend in lftp :) regards, wernfried -- - Fppmpppffpppmpfpffmffmppmpm Mfpmmfmm - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - mfpfmpfmppfm://fpfppffpmmpppff.ppmfmfmpm.mmmfmp/~mmmppmpppmpmffppfppp - http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny/
