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Re: Crash after interrupting tab-completion with Ctrl-\



On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 26,  6:31pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> }
> } In fact even with a trap on QUIT in place, the stty quit character does
> } not seem to do anything until an external process is in the foreground.
>
> zsetterm() disables the tty quit character, along with a bunch of others.
> So if you were able to use it, you'd somehow gotten out of ZLE.

Is it possible that you (Vincent) held down the QUIT key, and there
was a race where the signal got sent to zsh before zle had a chance to
disable the quit character? This sometimes happens to me when trying
to break out of for loops that do a bit more than I intended and I end
up killing zsh as well.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson



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