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Article #99057^G reentry should flush tty input
From: Paul Rubin
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 11:25
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 11:25
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On the losing system that I am forced to use, sometimes my tty hangs for a minute or so at a time for no reason. If I happen to be waiting for an emacs command to finish when this occurs, I can't tell whether it is my tty or the emacs command that is losing. My natural response is to hit ^G, and when nothing happens, to hit ^G a few dozen more times. When the tty finally comes back to life, Emacs is suspended and when I fg it it response "abort (and dump core)?" etc. as it should. Trouble is, the remaining dozens of ^G's are still buffered, so on restarting Emacs immediately suspends itself again and I have to restart it over and over. I hope that some reasonable fix can be installed for this sometime. I know that my hitting ^G so many times is not intelligent behavior, but it is natural, and a good interface is supposed to make natural actions produce reasonable results.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,fcfba74f2ec77d52,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-12-05 03:25:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!OCF.BERKELEY.EDU!phr From: phr@OCF.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: ^G reentry should flush tty input Message-ID: <9012051125.AA07719@bigbang.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 90 11:25:26 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 17 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Posted: Wed Dec 5 12:25:26 1990