Benno Schulenberg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 11:19, Bob Proulx wrote: > > [...] this is the perfect case for job control. No need for a > > second terminal. Here is an example. Use Control-Z to stop the > > foreground job. > > For that to work, it requires having 'set suspend' in your > nanorc. (Which I don't have, because it annoys me when nano > drops into the background when I accidentally hit ^Z.) > > Luckily one can toggle suspendability on with M-Z, but... > somehow that doesn't seem to work when nano is screenless. > > When I use nano with --ignorercfiles, M-Z does work. > Maybe the colors do something strange with the pipe? > > And when I use LANGUAGE=en, it works too. Ha! > Esperanto pisses off the pipe, too. :) > > Benno
M-Z Ctrl-Z works for me with that testcase. While Ctrl-Z is a generic solution, I don't think it is reasonable an expectation of M-Z to enable it, as it is really domain-specific.