Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-15 Thread gene heskett
On 10/15/23 02:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: [...] P.S. I believed that most confusing (while still useful) feature of terminals is [Ctrl+s]. It takes some time to realize that it has been hit by mistake, so [Ctrl+q] is required to res

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-14 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: [...] > P.S. I believed that most confusing (while still useful) feature of > terminals is [Ctrl+s]. It takes some time to realize that it has been hit by > mistake, so [Ctrl+q] is required to resume output. Old age gotta have some adv

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/10/2023 02:10, Van Snyder wrote: The culprit is tcsh, not XTerm. With bash, Alt-Shift-P produces a colon. In tcsh the default bindings are almost the same as in bash: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/tcsh/tcsh.1.en.html#history-search-backward history-search-backward (M-p, M-P) P.S

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-14 Thread Van Snyder
The culprit is tcsh, not XTerm. With bash, Alt-Shift-P produces a colon. I added this to my .XDefaults xterm*altIsNotMeta: truexterm*altSendsEscape: true so that Alt-Shift-P becomes ESC-P. The problem now does not occur in tcsh. Thanks to the correspondents on the list. On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 15:49

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-14 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:38:22AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 07:07:57AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > > I haven't figured out how to unlock the XTerm after accidentally giving > > > it Alt-Shift-P. > >

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 07:07:57AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I haven't figured out how to unlock the XTerm after accidentally giving > > it Alt-Shift-P. I'm not seeing whatever it is you're seeing here. On Debian 12, if I laun

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-13 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:38 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run > > pdflatex. > > If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up > > and the only thing I can d

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

2023-10-13 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:38 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run > pdflatex. > If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up > and the only thing I can do is kill it and restart. > How can I unlock XTerm after doing this? >