Re: weird less(1) CTRL-Z behaviour

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 12 October 2022 12:29:34 (+01:00), Robert Elz wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:12:31 +0000
> From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>
> Message-ID: <1665573114107.3142740811.698765486%gmail.com@localhost>
>
>
> | Funny enough, even under zsh, the following works just fine:
> |
> | dir() { (/bin/ls -al "$@" | less;) }
>
> That's an entirely different thing, that the two behave differently
> is not a surprise, if that one didn't work, zsh would be unusable (on 
NetBSD).
Sure, it is another process; I meant, wiz@ could avoid the problem for the 
moment this way...

Mind you, there was a new version of zsh relatively recently, mine is from 
28th of September. 

>
> And while here, when I tested this with my current development sh
> (where, for several reasons, though this example was not one of them,
> at least, not previously) it works there too - I have made several
> changes to the way jobs, and pipelines, are handled internally, and
> it seems that the problem that was discovered with this test (not the
> same one as zsh has) has been fixed, just by the general cleanup.
>
> Those fixes are still a while away from being committed, there is more
> to do (though the ATF tests are all working now) - not least of which is
> separating out several different changes so they can be committed 
separately.
>
> kre
>
>

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Chavdar Ivanov