If this behavior (ignore with warning one or more Ctrl-Z keypresses during loops before eventually backgrounding) was desirable, there may be code that could be borrowed from IGNOREEOF handling (I haven't looked at it).
-Jonathan Hankins On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that this is already on the wish > list, > although I appreciate it is not straightforward to implement. > > A stopgap might be to make Ctrl-Z do nothing when the currently running > command is a loop or other flow control construct. > Instead it would print a message explaining that only the current > subprocess would be interrupted, and saying to hit Ctrl-Z again if that is > what you really wanted. I hope this might go some way to making things > less confusing, and be relatively quick to hack up. > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathan Hankins Homewood City Schools The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. - Carl Sagan jhank...@homewood.k12.al.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------
