I am thinking of changing the kdb serial attention key from control/A,
mainly because ^A is used in emacs, including all utilities that use
gnu readline in emacs mode. I have lost count of the number of times I
hit ^A to go to start of line in bash and found myself in kdb instead.
The keyboard key will still be pause.
Any recommendations for a new kdb serial key? The problem is that most
single keys are already used so it will probably be a multi key
combination. I do not like break because of the problems that some
emulators have in sending break. My current idea is ^Q three times
within three seconds with no intervening characters. All (?) utilities
discard ^Q so it will not cause a problem if kdb is not activated.
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