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Re: less with subprocess

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From: Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: less with subprocess
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 01:28:37 +0200
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in this case maybe the ctrl-z kill % isn't so bad a solution for the occasions in which I want to interrupt the process before any output has been provided

thanks

Il giorno mar 28 set 2021 alle 01:05 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:57 PM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I'm starting to think this is something that can't be solved from the shell because the shell is unable to do anything until less gives up the control, am I right?

"less" is the foreground process controlling the terminal, so if it
traps the signal, that's pretty much the end of it, yes.

Pier Paolo Grassi

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