Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:01:46 +0100 | Subject | Re: A minor error |
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On 23 Mar 96 at 17:53, Skunk Schouten wrote:
> > Yes, this is a bug. It seems to happen when the keyboard spews things > too fast for the kernel to handle. Unfortunately, with the more recent > kernels, that means pressing the up and down arrow keys in the shell too > fast gives me keyboard errors. Back down to 1.3.57, and I can hold the > keys down and not get an error, with anything from about .65 to .76 > (haven't tried .77 yet, got a job and all) I have to sit and press keys > one at a time. I am a lazy typist and make quite a bit of use of bash's > command history......... With the newer kernels, it's useless, my screen
Did you know that you can do an incremental search on the history by pressing ^R? You just shouldn't use an arrow key after it. BTW: Using ^P instead of cursor up will produce less load on your system ;-)
#ifdef TEACHING_MODE I can remember times when pressing 'x' in vi took about three seconds to produce visible effects. You did never use keyboard repeat; you counted the characters to delete and entered "9x" instead. Slow modems are a great device for teaching editors. #endif
> fills up with Keyboard error and Socket destroy delayed, and I can't see > what I'm doing. (: > > Skunky > > -------------------------+------------------------------------------- > Jeff W. (Skunk) Schouten | Someday, when all the fighting ends we'll > PFC, USMC (Ret.) | all realize just how stupid the things we > skunky@skunky.atlcom.net | fight about are. > skunky@netcom.com | The Skunk on the Information Superhighway > (770)946-5709 (pager) | Don't beep if it's not important.
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