On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:21:10 +0100, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> in linux I often start programs from a terminal running bash like
> this
> ; (program &)
> which somehow achieves to run the program in the background and the
> program further survives the terminal's end.
It's called "double-fork", AFAIK.
You can also use `disown` (as in `program & disown`) to achieve the same thing.
> When I write the command I often forget to write the opening '('. So,
> in 9term, I click at the line beginning, add the '(', click at the
> line end, hit enter. And I see:
>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
>
> although the line looks correct --- when I highlight it and 'send',
> it works.
bash/readline does not know what you click on -- it still thinks you are typing
at the end of line.
Enabling cooked mode (middle-click -> 'cook', probably along with `stty -echo`)
can help -- it makes 9term only send an entire line at once -- but it may
create some other problems.
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Mantas Mikulėnas (0xD24F6CB2C1B52632)
