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[Brett Galloway]

In article <104 at quacky.UUCP> dce at quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
> ... If you type ^Z, you stop now and lose the input you typed
>ahead. If you type :stop, you will enter vi and stop. Loss of typeahead
>can really be a pain (this makes the Apollo Domain/IX version of vi,
>and some of the nicer shell line editors not worth using).
>
>I have never found a way to change the handling of signals such that
>input is not flushed.

I think that you can use ^Y to embed a stop character in a typed-ahead
input stream.
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Brett Galloway
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