On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:11:16AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> 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.
I press ^Q in a row regularly because I often have problems with screens
that have software flowcontrol enabled (it is XON)
How about three ^X ?
-Andi
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