Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!zorch!pacbell!gladys!bakerst!ethos!pcid!gizzmo!u1100a!krohn From: krohn@u1100a.UUCP (Eric Krohn) Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs Subject: Re: Bug report--window driver 3.51 Message-ID: <2124@u1100a.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 16:17:11 GMT References: <10552@stb.UUCP> <761@rush.cts.com> <10581@stb.UUCP> <404@amanue.UUCP> Reply-To: krohn@u1100a.UUCP (Eric Krohn) Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 21 In article <404@amanue.UUCP> jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: ] One *can* make oneself learn the habit to hit ESC before a window switch, but ] it isn't easy! And of course this does you no good outside of ksh. ] ] [BTW: I use the vi mode of ksh; no flames please if the character to enter ] edit mode for emacs mode isn't ESC -- you get the idea.] I run ksh with set -o vi -o viraw. This forces all input to ksh to be done in raw mode, with its inefficiencies (not that I care). I need not type ESC before switching windows to preserve my typeahead. (This is probably why I never noticed this bug that (most) everyone is yelling about! :-) The real reason I run with viraw mode is so the ^W word erase and ^U (my line kill) behave as in vi as soon as I start typing a command. Emacs mode of ksh always runs in raw mode so no need for the ESC game to switch from cooked to raw. -- -- Eric J. Krohn krohn@ctt.ctt.bellcore.com or {bcr,bellcore}!u1100a!krohn Bell Communications Research, 444 Hoes Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854