On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 03:43:53PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > (I hope my dynamic resetting of PROMPT_COMMAND and writing things to the > terminal windowtitle and icon title values doesn't end up toggling > ctrl-O an even number of times - I did try to temporarily unset my > automatic voodoo)
dunno, PROMPT_COMMAND is one of the things i disable from debian's .bashrc files. along with purging the bash-completion and command-not-found packages. some people like them but i find they're far more annoying than useful. command-not-found because it's verbose and i mistype things like ls as sl often enough to find it annoying; and bash-completion because i find the restrictions imposed by command-specific completion rules to be worse than the benefits (i.e. i'm happy with just default filename completion) - and quite often the rules are broken and I can't force it to complete a filename with an extension the broken rules don't like. worse, all three slow down my shell. that's just unforgivable. > > running "reset" is also useful, and "stty sane" too, especially if > > the terminal is in non-echoing mode. > > But reset worked, thanks. I wonder if there's a less drastic (ie, no > screen & history clear) subset of what reset does that would help me. > Unfortunately, I don't know how to toggle this xterm back into a fault > state (since ctrl-O isn't working for me) to test. depends on the terminal emulator - i reluctantly switched from mrxvt (excellent, but no unicode support) to roxterm (best of the libvt terms) and it has right-click menu options for "Reset" and "Reset & Clear". others might have similar. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> BOFH excuse #270: Someone has messed up the kernel pointers _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
