From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:59:26 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ljzr9n9d.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <819feff4-76e3-4bf8-9ece-7b47f099efc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87mykaw8sb.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216924956 18091 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 18:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:42:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 20:43:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KM5me-0002Wn-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM5lk-0002fW-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:42:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp17-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RQd6Ks6Odg7draeFr46KatCuvy0= Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jul 2008 19:53:38 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1216922018 news-4.free.fr 8937 88.182.134.169:35612 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160567 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55914 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > It is as arbitrary as C-c to killing a program, [...] That's exactly because it is arbitrary that C-c is as linked to killing a program as you believe. It all depend on you stty setting: [pjb@hubble ~]$ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 62; columns 159; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ; eol2 = ; swtch = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke [pjb@hubble ~]$ stty intr ^A [pjb@hubble ~]$ sleep 60 ^A [pjb@hubble ~]$ stty intr ^C [pjb@hubble ~]$ sleep 60 ^C [pjb@hubble ~]$ And yes, C-c is bound to intr = interrupt (SIGINT), not to quit which is the true process kill (SIGKILL). C-c is INTERRUPT! Not kill. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ PLEASE NOTE: Some quantum physics theories suggest that when the consumer is not directly observing this product, it may cease to exist or will exist only in a vague and undetermined state.