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Tyler McAdams · Jul 29, 2003, 01:54 AM

control.... i? Can't remember thx...

proton · Jul 29, 2003, 02:10 AM

Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
control.... i? Can't remember thx...

Control-O is for a plain save. (WriteOut on the screen)
Control-X is for exit, which gives you the option to save.

If you look at the list at the bottom of the screen it gives you all the options...

- proton

Tyler McAdams · Jul 29, 2003, 03:10 AM

Originally posted by proton:
Control-O is for a plain save. (WriteOut on the screen)
Control-X is for exit, which gives you the option to save.

If you look at the list at the bottom of the screen it gives you all the options...

- proton

Thanks... I did not see the control-o... thx

Richard Edgar · Jul 29, 2003, 04:09 AM

One further useful bit of information: If in some moment of insanity, you think that ctrl-s might save, you will need to type ctrl-q to resume your terminal.

Tyler McAdams · Jul 29, 2003, 04:16 AM

Originally posted by Richard Edgar:
One further useful bit of information: If in some moment of insanity, you think that ctrl-s might save, you will need to type ctrl-q to resume your terminal.

what is then control-s? command mode or something?

absmiths · Jul 29, 2003, 12:30 PM

Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
what is then control-s? command mode or something?

If you look in the pico help, neither ctrl-s nor ctrl-q does anything. Also, typing them in pico merely prints a message "Unknown Command: ^S".

Tried in tcsh/bash (from ssh, not Terminal.app) in Mac OS X.2 AND Redhat Linux 9 using pico 2.4 (Mac OS X) and 4.2 (Linux).

Richard Edgar · Jul 29, 2003, 12:31 PM

Ctrl+s is conventionally "suspend terminal".

absmiths · Jul 29, 2003, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by Richard Edgar:
Ctrl+s is conventionally "suspend terminal".

But there are a LOT of places where that does not occur: Pico, emacs and vi are some examples. You also cannot ctrl-c to abort pico, vi or emacs.

Richard Edgar · Jul 30, 2003, 01:59 AM

But there are a LOT of places where that does not occur: Pico, emacs and vi are some examples. You also cannot ctrl-c to abort pico, vi or emacs

I can't speak for OSX, but IME, ctrl-s suspends pico under Solaris and some versions of Linux.

philzilla · Jul 30, 2003, 02:15 AM

Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
control.... i? Can't remember thx...

meanwhile, a few clicks later on google...

http://www2.ncsu.edu/cc/pub/tutorial.../pico_new.html

absmiths · Jul 30, 2003, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by Richard Edgar:
I can't speak for OSX, but IME, ctrl-s suspends pico under Solaris and some versions of Linux.

Well, this is an OS X forum so that would be the target platform. Also, as I said, RedHat does not do this (and I haven't experienced this behavior under any Linux for some time).

Richard Edgar · Jul 30, 2003, 04:03 PM

It was a response very much couched in terms of my experience. Look on it as a useful piece of information to bear in mind if xterms stop working in future.

Tyler McAdams · Aug 2, 2003, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by philzilla:
meanwhile, a few clicks later on google...

http://www2.ncsu.edu/cc/pub/tutorial.../pico_new.html

Yes and remember hope is only a call away too.

theory · Aug 3, 2003, 06:05 AM

It really depends on the version of pico you
are using. I used to have the same problem
with vi but that was on Solaris ages ago.