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I use emacs a lot, and type C-x s to save there. When I am in vim running inside tmux on a remote machine, if I accidentally type C-x s, the vim instance completely freezes up, and the only way out is ...

In the terminal, I can type CTRL-R to search for a matching command previously typed in BASH. E.g., if I type CTRL-R then grep is lists my last grep command, and I can hit enter to use it. This only ...

I came across a sentence in vimdoc: Note: CTRL-S does not work on all terminals and might block further input, use CTRL-Q to get going again. and using CTRL-S indeed hangs my vim. I ...

Is there a better way to search my history file for a command than grep? I do have some idea what the command starts as, but I don't know how far back in the history it is. update: was formerly zsh ...

Which harmless pranks do you know that would be great to play on your collegues?

I use !n where (n) is the line number for executing a line in the history file I want executed at the command prompt which I find via history|less. But there is a command line history event I wish ...

It happens often that my cursor on gnome-terminal disappears, forcing me to work on a new tab/window. It seems like a random occurrence. Does anyone else experience this? What about other X terminal ...

From here I understand that to disable Ctrl+S the stty -ixon command can be used and it works, but as soon as I close the terminal and open another I have to re-enter the command. To permanently ...

Bash offers the functionality to reverse search via Ctrl + R. Then one can type in a part of a command it will show a fitting entry from the history. Assume this is my history: vim foo1 vim foo2 # I ...

when I ssh to a server over the internet in a gnome terminal tab, if I lost internet connection, the terminal tab will be hang and not accept any input. Why is it hang? Is there some way to activate ...

When using a terminal emulator, one can stop the currently running program with either CTRL-Z or CTRL-S. What's the difference between these signals?

I was installing a .iso 8,2 version in a vmware to learn unix., and i am stuck with iostat command, i run iostat 3 and is keep going to show me the results, but whem i put exit or q or q! to exit, he ...

At times when I do CtrlR to search through command history, I find that I don't reach the entry I was looking for, even though I know it's in history. I think this is due to me having passed the entry,...

The contents of the command history file using history | less is: 555 ls 556 ls -a 557 echo "hello" 558 echo "hello again" 559 cd 560 pwd 561 echo "hello hello" 562 ls 563 echo "hello hello hello" ...

Every couple of months I return to a gnu screen session just to find out that the running script was stalling for hours or days. My suspicion is, that I, while I try to detach, accidentally press some ...