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From: brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stuff chars
Message-ID: <775@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 19:44:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 19:44:16 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 03:38:43 EST
References: <19@houligan.UUCP> <2270@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <104@quacky.UUCP>
Reply-To: brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway)
Organization: Watkins-Johnson Co., San Jose, Calif.
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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 think that you can use ^Y to embed a stop character in a typed-ahead
input stream.
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Brett Galloway
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