Control-Z hanging vi - Why
Ken Goldman
goldman at ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP
Wed Sep 18 02:57:04 AEST 1985
HW - Valid workstation running 4.1BSD:
Due to a keyboard which reverses the CTRL and SHIFT keys, users (including
myself) occasionally type ^Z^Z instead of ZZ to write and exit from vi.
This hangs the terminal - all characters are echoed but none have any
effect, not even ESC or ^C or ^D. The only solution is to kill the
process from another terminal, losing the editing session.
Anyone have a better way out?
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