Hi Keith,
Another place where ^A is used quite often is with the "screen"
utility. This utility was mostly used with dumb terminals -
and is still a popular utility. (Used to create multiple pseudo
terminals). To change to a different window or for most of the
commands, ^A is used.
3 times ^X seems good to me. If it is also being used by some
other utility, can you pick something like combination of
different keys? (Like Solaris uses "~#", our kernel debugger uses
CTRL-SHIFT-2 etc..). Could be hard to remember initially, but
people will get used to it.
regards,
shailesh
[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.
:
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