Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 8.3. Why did the time display at the top of the screen go away? Next Document: 8.5. What do I do when the machine hangs at the boot message? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Some programs that use the TAM (Terminal Access Method) library can leave the keyboard (really the shell window) in a strange state after leaving. This state is characterized by each press of the ESC key injecting two 0x1b characters into the input stream. This generally doesn't help anybody -- vi beeps too much, emacs is unusable, etc. The fix is to issue the following ioctl from a C program: #include <sys/window.h> ioctl(0, WIOCSESC, 0); /* to turn off double-esc mode */ If you really want it back again, do the following: ioctl(0, WIOCSESC, 1); /* to turn on double-esc mode */ User Contributions:Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 8.3. Why did the time display at the top of the screen go away? Next Document: 8.5. What do I do when the machine hangs at the boot message? Part1 - Part2 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jbunch@nyx.nyx.net (John B. Bunch)
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