From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: undo in shell buffer? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:43:01 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mye1wi9q.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231468850 9880 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2009 02:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 02:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 03:42:02 2009 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 1LL7Jw-00075G-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LL7If-0001hp-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:40:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!barmar Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+FwEVnz+QrySwaXwb2rJhBTga4q4W+CrLNDVYO6X04Km2lEbXD6Snn5T7zRJbDzZ50cC+3ZKUMXrHwv1KbBPaFeWJBB17xVr2UE8sQ0NFMHjIXDk13Y4Z7+ripmky1KNE= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 01:43:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19tQzPi6B0fXXeefliHOQKtwny3I7HnI2c= Cancel-Lock: sha1:DUeuyj66xn4Zfen3NgRaKX66nbA= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165863 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:61195 Archived-At: In article , "Samuel Wales" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:21, Tim X wrote: > >> I find m-r to be inconvenient in the shell buffer, because you have to > >> press ret. i also find it inconvenient that cycling the command line > >> history wraps around instead of stopping. Yet perhaps I would have to > >> get used to things in term, like moving around to copy stuff. And my > >> prompt isn't working in term yet. > >> > > > > There are essentially three different methods to interact with a 'shell' > > I found another drawback of shell mode. For some reason, at least > when it is running su, c-c c-c and c-c c-z do not send the signals. That's because you can't send signals to a process running under a different userid. To get the effect, you need to send the actual control character, so type C-q C-c RET or C-q C-z RET. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***