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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stuff chars
Message-ID: <186@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 05:53:49 EST
Article-I.D.: sol.186
Posted: Thu Dec 11 05:53:49 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 04:52:18 EST
References: <19@houligan.UUCP> <2270@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <104@quacky.UUCP> <775@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: cudcv@sol.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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munch

>In article <104@quacky.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>> ... If you type ^Z, you stop now and lose the input you typed
>>ahead. If you type :stop, you will enter vi and stop. Loss of typeahead
>>can really be a pain (this makes the Apollo Domain/IX version of vi,
>>and some of the nicer shell line editors not worth using).
>>
>>I have never found a way to change the handling of signals such that
>>input is not flushed.

I tried to reply, but ...

What about

        stty noflsh

?
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