Re: ESC followed by UP-arrow cause bash shell to hang

2018-01-06 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Jim Reisert wrote: > [...] ESC followed by UP-arrow. This seems to lock up the > bash shell for about 30 seconds before control returns. Your up-arrow is probably a character sequence that starts with an Esc (you can verify that by typing a Ctrl+V followed by your

Re: ESC followed by UP-arrow cause bash shell to hang

2018-01-06 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:49:08, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I do a lot of command recall on the command line (xterm running on Xorg server in Cygwin). One of the most common things I do is type the UP-arrow once, then ESC-backspace to get rid of the last word on the line, so I can change it to somethin

ESC followed by UP-arrow cause bash shell to hang

2018-01-06 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I do a lot of command recall on the command line (xterm running on Xorg server in Cygwin). One of the most common things I do is type the UP-arrow once, then ESC-backspace to get rid of the last word on the line, so I can change it to something else. Occasionally I type these two keys out-of-orde