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On 12/2/2010 1:27 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Illia Bobyr wrote:
>> On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing
>>> Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should work
>>> again.
>>
>> Would you, please, elaborate on this a little bit?
>> Maybe a link or a reference that explains why this is happening?
> 
> I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know why it is happening. I just know how to
> recover from it as a user.

I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days:
ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the
terminal settings all scrogged up, and requires you to "blindly" type in
'reset' (or stty sane) to fix it.

It's really rather annoying, but I don't know what exactly caused this
to start happening.  It's possible it is unique to mintty, since I
/think/ I started seeing this more frequently about the time I drifted
to regularly using mintty more than rxvt-unicode...and I don't think I
see this behavior in urxvt.

Andy, any thoughts?

--
Chuck

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