Please disable flow-control by default
Bug #80635 reported by
Jan Van Buggenhout
This bug affects 15 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
bash (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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bash (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: coreutils
Not sure if this is the right package, but I think flow-control (XON/XOFF - ctrl-s/ctrl-q) should be disabled by default. It's easy to hit ctrl-s instead of for example ctrl-a (in screen), and wonder why your shell isn't responding anymore. I doubt many people use it anyway, and those who do can enable it.
Changed in bash: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in bash: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
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I second the motion. I, personally, like flow-control, and would want it on; but I remember well back in my earlier days, /apparently/ screwing up my terminl with a simple Ctrl-S (which I usually wouldn't even know I'd typed: it'd be accidental), and trying everything I could think of (except, apparently, Ctrl-Q).
However, this has nothing to do with coreutils (stty can't set what the /defaults/ were before it was called). And having all new terminals have ixon turned off would be the wrong approach. Probably the best thing to do would be to add an explicit stty call in users' .bashrc's; I recommend adding a line "stty -ixon" in /skel/.bashrc.