From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 20:32:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06920 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA06913 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 20:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA01253; Thu, 28 May 98 23:32:06 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id XAA10116; Thu, 28 May 1998 23:32:04 -0400 Message-Id: <19980528233204.A10089@mstar.astro.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 23:32:04 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Wall, Jonathan" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^C on 'man' page stops Carriage Return on xterm Mail-Followup-To: "Wall, Jonathan" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Wall, Jonathan on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 03:46:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 03:46:49PM +0100, Wall, Jonathan wrote: > If I exit from a 'man' page halfway through its contents using control C > (^C) then subsequent pressing on the Enter key fails to move the prompt > onto a new line. Instead the new prompt appears further along the > original line. Any characters I enter fail to appear at the prompt until > after I push the Enter key. At the moment I have to start a new xterm to > get round this (or try to remember to not use ^C in a man page) Running "reset" should restore the terminal to a sensible state. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message