On 2015-11-28, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> running tail -f on a file and then pressing Ctrl-4 while it waits for data >> results in a crash: > > Somewhere (terminal emulator?) this is converted to Ctrl-\ which defaults > to doing 'quit'.
On the DEC VT220 and good emulations (e.g. xterm), a variety of Control-<key> combinations produce somewhat nonobvious control codes. For instance, Ctrl-3 is the same as Ctrl-[, i.e. ESC, and much more convenient to reach on typical PC keyboards than the actual Esc key. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
