[nmglug] Using Flow Control

[Scott Gamble]

On 05/04/2012 01:43 PM, John Osmon wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:40:29PM -0600, Scott Gamble wrote:
> [...]
>> (to pause text press ctrl +s )   (to resume ctrl +q)   (  I found
>> that pressing any key resumes the text)
> Most "old timers" will know this as XON/XOFF flow control.  It's
> horribly useful, and I'm glad new generations are finding it!
> They both work on the bash command line as well.  Extremely useful
> in terminal/non-windowed environments.
>
> Another set of helpers that let me navigate the command line
> faster:
>    ^a -- moves the cursor to the start of the line
>    ^e -- moves the cursor to the end of the line
>    ^u -- erases to the beginning of the line
>
> <voice type=old&warbly>  back when we only had VT52 terminals, we used
> had these keystrokes hardwired into our brain</voice>
>
> (I also find myself hitting the escape key at the end of paragraphs
> when using Word and the like too...)
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Thank you John,
i will be using those command line navigation tricks from now on :)