On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 at 07:30, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 8/20/25 3:36 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > The real issue is that readline […] does not > believe that read(2) can both succeed (return value > 0) *and* get a > signal before it returns to user mode without setting errno. […] > You either need to inject it into the input artificially or hit the process > with SIGINT from another process with exquisitely precise timing. > There are various ways to enqueue multiple bytes into the pty buffer quickly enough to trigger this behaviour, including: - as previously suggested, define a macro in your terminal to send multiple bytes starting with \x03 - stty intr ^[ # ^R then any cursor key - printf '\x03\x1b' | xsel # or xclip # ^R then middle-click-paste in Xterm - ssh -o TCPNoDelay=no -o IPQoS=throughput … # ^R then mash multiple keys -Martin
