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16 questions linked to/from How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?
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vim running in tmux permanently freezes when I accidentally type C-x s [duplicate]
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 ...
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How to cycle through reverse-i-search in BASH?
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, it lists my last grep command, and I can hit enter to use it. This ...
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Ctrl-s hangs the terminal emulator?
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 ...
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Best way to search through shell's history
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 ...
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put history command onto command line without executing it
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 ...
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Unix & Linux pranks
Which harmless pranks do you know that would be great to play on your collegues?
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What is making my cursor 'randomly' disappear when using gnome-teminal?
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 ...
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How to permanently disable Ctrl-s in 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 ...
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How to Navigate within bash's Reverse Search?
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 ...
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terminal hang when lost connection and ssh is on
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 ...
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What's the difference between the ^S and ^Z control characters inside a terminal?
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?
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how to get out from the command iostat on unix?
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 ...
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How to search the whole of bash history without needing to go forwards and backwards?
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,...
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Mapping otherwise conflicting or unmappable keys in terminal Vim
Resources in the network (1, 2, 3) claim that some key
combinations, among which Ctrl-Shift-letter, Ctrl-number,
Ctrl-i/Tab, Ctrl-m/Enter,
Esc/Ctrl-[, cannot be mapped reliably in Vim because the
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Use reverse i search to cycle through only commands matching pattern
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"
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