Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
: Hi,
:
: Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
: console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
: little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
: corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
: consoles and am forced to reboot.
Try the 'reset' command. You won't be able to read it, but it'll work
(usually).
: Now, there has GOT to be a way to recover a scrambled console, right?
: Why isn't there protection for this in the first place? I don't see why
: this would ever be desired behavior, unless this property is somehow
: essential for 'correctness'?
Well, ppp uses a "scrambled" console to set up the link, so it is
desired behavior (though not in your case!) Remember, UNIX doesn't do
much to protect you from yourself.
: Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
: sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
: from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
I don't use vim, but I'm pretty sure that ^s and ^q are software flow
control characters ... ^s means "stop sending" and ^q means "start
sending". If you type a ^s and the screen quits "working", type ^q and
all should be well again.
(I always thought these two characters did the reverse, but I guess my
memory is poor).
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