Re: undo in shell buffer?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.4363.1231456397.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:21, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> >> I find m-r to be inconvenient in the shell buffer, because you have to
> >> press ret.  i also find it inconvenient that cycling the command line
> >> history wraps around instead of stopping.  Yet perhaps I would have to
> >> get used to things in term, like moving around to copy stuff.  And my
> >> prompt isn't working in term yet.
> >>
> >
> > There are essentially three different methods to interact with a 'shell'
> 
> I found another drawback of shell mode.  For some reason, at least
> when it is running su, c-c c-c and c-c c-z do not send the signals.

That's because you can't send signals to a process running under a 
different userid.  To get the effect, you need to send the actual 
control character, so type C-q C-c RET or C-q C-z RET.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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