Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns

2021-06-06 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:00:21PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM Léa Gris wrote: > > For the second person, there's of course "thou", but for some reason, > I've never heard anyone suggest using that in practice. Hast thou never been to Yorkshire or Lancashire? :-)

Re: Hightlighting in bash

2011-03-12 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:53:22AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: > > It wouldn't be difficult to write as a separate program, which is really > how this should be handled. You could redirect a pipeline's STDOUT and > STDERR to individual named pipes (FIFOs), and have a separate program > read from bot

Job control in forced interactive mode upset if stderr is not the controlling tty

2007-06-01 Thread Derek Fawcus
I have been playing with a terminal application which runs shells plumbed as below: fdwhat 0 pty slave 1 pty slave 2 some pipe To get the various shells being used to work, some of them require that '-i' be given for force interactive mode, fair enough. One problem

Job control in forced interactive mode upset if stderr is not the controlling tty

2007-06-01 Thread Derek Fawcus
I have been playing with a terminal application which runs shells plumbed as below: fdwhat 0 pty slave 1 pty slave 2 some pipe To get the various shells being used to work, some of them require that '-i' be given for force interactive mode, fair enough. One problem

Re: SIGTTOU handling

2007-11-12 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:56:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone provide a hint to this end? My deepest > thanks for your time and any advice you might be > able to provide. I get exactly that behaviour with a program I have been working on. I traced it to the fact that I ran bas

Re: SIGTTOU handling

2007-11-12 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:03:38PM +, Derek Fawcus wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:56:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone provide a hint to this end? My deepest > > thanks for your time and any advice you might be > > able to provide. > > I

Re: SIGTTOU handling

2007-11-12 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:56:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had some difficulties getting job control working at > first. I found that having the child process do a > setpgrp() before forking to the bash instance made the > error message about disabling job control go away. Try set