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> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:11:16AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> > I am thinking of changing the kdb serial attention key from control/A,
> > mainly because ^A is used in emacs, including all utilities that use
> > gnu readline in emacs mode. I have lost count of the number of times I
> > hit ^A to go to start of line in bash and found myself in kdb instead.
> > The keyboard key will still be pause.
> >
> > Any recommendations for a new kdb serial key? The problem is that most
> > single keys are already used so it will probably be a multi key
> > combination. I do not like break because of the problems that some
> > emulators have in sending break. My current idea is ^Q three times
> > within three seconds with no intervening characters. All (?) utilities
> > discard ^Q so it will not cause a problem if kdb is not activated.
>
> I press ^Q in a row regularly because I often have problems with screens
> that have software flowcontrol enabled (it is XON)
>
> How about three ^X ?
>
>
> -Andi
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>
Perhaps ^K? It has mnemonic appeal.
If it were as easy to modify utilities as it
is to patch the kernel, I'd be tempted to add the kdb hot key
to the 'stty' command so that an arbitrary key can be assigned
(and pressing it thrice wouldn't be necessary).
This would have the additional benefit that it could be usable
from all serial ports.
speed 9600 baud; rows 65; columns 105; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>;
start = ^Q;
kdb = ^A
stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time =
0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
ignkdb
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc
-ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab3 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -ec
scott
