From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:04:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:04:40 -0400 Received: from eagle.verisign.com ([208.206.241.105]:46742 "EHLO eagle.verisign.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:04:36 -0400 From: slurn@verisign.com Message-Id: <200105081804.LAA06108@slurndal-lnx.verisign.com> Subject: Re: kdb wishlist To: quintela@mandrakesoft.com (Juan Quintela) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Cc: slurn@verisign.com, george@mvista.com (george anzinger), kaos@melbourne.sgi.com (Keith Owens), kdb@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Juan Quintela" at May 08, 2001 07:38:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > >>>>> "slurn" == slurn writes: > > >> > >> Keith Owens wrote: > >> > > >> > This is part of my kdb wishlist, does anybody fancy writing the code to > >> > add any of these features? It would be a nice project for anybody > >> > wanting to start on the kernel. Replies to kdb@oss.sgi.com please. > >> > Current patches at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ > >> > > >> > * Change kdb invocation key from ^A to ^X^X^X within 3 seconds. ^A is > >> > used by emacs, bash, minicom etc. > >> > > >> ^X^X swaps point and mark in emacs. One (well, I) often will do > >> ^X^X^X^X to examine where mark is and then return to point. > > slurn> How about using the break condition instead. This is only for the > slurn> serial port, and most terminal emulators (e.g. kermit, minicom) provide > slurn> a means to generate a break condition on the serial port. > > kdb uses BREAK in the serial port (that minicom uses C-a for sending a > break is an anecdote :) But the problem at hang is the console. I > vote for the ^X^X^X as I a think that it is not a difficult shortcut. > (and yes, I also use emacs and ^X^X all the time, but I think that > this combination is not specially bad, and I suppose that the pet > aplication of other people will have problems with something like: > ^A^A^A that I never use). > > Later, Juan. Unless something has changed, the console uses the 'pause' key and the serial port uses ^A (for x86, anyway). I may be out of date, however. scott