Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Richmond wrote:
> > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal.
> > But nothing happens.
> You could try pressing ctrl-z at this point to send the application into
> background.
It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work.
The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard
input from that point forward.
(Are people not actually *testing* these things before proposing them?)
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