Charles Wilson wrote on 2010-12-02: > On 12/2/2010 1:27 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> Illia Bobyr wrote: >>> On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>>> Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing >>>> Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should >>>> work again. >>> >>> Would you, please, elaborate on this a little bit? >>> Maybe a link or a reference that explains why this is happening? >> >> I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know why it is happening. I just know how >> to recover from it as a user. > > I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: > ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the > terminal settings all scrogged up, and requires you to "blindly" type in > 'reset' (or stty sane) to fix it. > > It's really rather annoying, but I don't know what exactly caused this > to start happening. It's possible it is unique to mintty, since I > /think/ I started seeing this more frequently about the time I drifted > to regularly using mintty more than rxvt-unicode...and I don't think I > see this behavior in urxvt.
I've seen it ctrl-c'ing to get out of a tail in an xterm, so it isn't specific to mintty. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
