Re: @ symbol deleting all preceeding input at command line?
From: Frank Slootweg (this_at_ddress.is.invalid)
Date: 09/21/05
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Date: 21 Sep 2005 14:02:57 GMT
Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com> wrote:
> In article <pgz7jdbiist.fsf@kruuna.helsinki.fi>, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> > mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com writes:
> >
> >> I've tried to replicate the behaviour, and surprise-surprise, I
> >> can't... Nobody, and I mean NO-BODY, even HP, has ever heard of such a
> >> thing. Have you?
> >
> > stty -a
> >
> > It just might be that the environment is setting the at sign as the
> > "kill" terminal sequence.
>
> Also, the point about HP never having heard about such can't possibly be
> valid, we've had HP-UX servers do that by default. H-class frames at
> least. Yes, that'd be ten years old by now. What's more, it's been
> discussed here too at least a couple of times in the last 5 years.
>
> Is the FAQ maintainer around? What's the limit for being F enough to be
> included in the FAQ?
It's already in the FAQ, probably since day one (of the FAQ):
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/>
FAQ> Subject: 8.14 Why can't I type an '@' character?
FAQ>
FAQ> If you do a 'stty -a' and you will see that your 'kill' character is
FAQ> set to '@'. You need to set your 'kill' character to be something
FAQ> other than the '@' character by doing something like 'stty kill '^U''.
FAQ> You should add this to your .profile or .cshrc file.
And then there is the issue that for some (X) windows environments,
.profile/.cshrc are not executed.
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