| 2019-05-24 13:53:35 |
Rickard Westman |
description |
I sometimes press Ctrl-C at interactive prompts when I don't want to go through with the command I've begun to type. This works in most shells and interactive programs using readline. In calc, it works once, but only once. Afterwards, it's also impossible to use of Ctrl-C to abort computations. A computation aborted with Ctrl-C does not *trigger* the problem, however - only Ctrl-C pressed at the interactive prompt does.
Example session:
C-style arbitrary precision calculator (version 2.12.5.0)
Calc is open software. For license details type: help copyright
[Type "exit" to exit, or "help" for help.]
; sleep(10)
^C
[Abort level 1]
9
; sleep(10)
^C
[Abort level 1]
9
; ^C
ABORT
; sleep(10)
^C^C^C
What I did in the above:
1) Invoked sleep(10) and aborted it successfully by pressing Ctrl-C.
2) Repeated step 1, demonstrating that Ctrl-C didn't trigger the problem in this case.
3) Pressed Ctrl-C at the interactive prompt, successfully aborting, giving me a new command line.
4) Pressed Ctrl-C at the interactive prompt again. Nothing happens!
5) Invoked sleep(10) again, tried to abort with Ctrl-C, unsuccessfully.
Output from "lsb_release -rd":
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
Output from "ap-cache policy apcalc":
apcalc:
Installed: 2.12.5.0-1build1
Candidate: 2.12.5.0-1build1
Version table:
*** 2.12.5.0-1build1 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status |
I sometimes press Ctrl-C at interactive prompts when I don't want to go through with the command I've begun to type. This works in most shells and interactive programs using readline. In calc, it works once, but only once. Afterwards, it's also impossible to use of Ctrl-C to abort computations. Aborting a computation with Ctrl-C does not *trigger* the problem, however - only Ctrl-C pressed at the interactive prompt does.
Example session:
C-style arbitrary precision calculator (version 2.12.5.0)
Calc is open software. For license details type: help copyright
[Type "exit" to exit, or "help" for help.]
; sleep(10)
^C
[Abort level 1]
9
; sleep(10)
^C
[Abort level 1]
9
; ^C
ABORT
; sleep(10)
^C^C^C
What I did in the above:
1) Invoked sleep(10) and aborted it successfully by pressing Ctrl-C.
2) Repeated step 1, demonstrating that Ctrl-C didn't trigger the problem in this case.
3) Pressed Ctrl-C at the interactive prompt, successfully aborting, giving me a new command line.
4) Pressed Ctrl-C at the interactive prompt again. Nothing happens!
5) Invoked sleep(10) again, tried to abort with Ctrl-C, unsuccessfully.
Output from "lsb_release -rd":
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
Output from "ap-cache policy apcalc":
apcalc:
Installed: 2.12.5.0-1build1
Candidate: 2.12.5.0-1build1
Version table:
*** 2.12.5.0-1build1 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status |
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