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Re: send-break or EOF exit the shell in "vared"



On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 09:34, Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> For context, that's still about trying to answer that "how to
> add a timeout to `vared`" question at
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/565718/zsh-timeout-for-vared-builtin
>
> I was thinking: vared uses zle, zle is fully programmable, that
> shouldn't be too difficult. But so far I've not been able to do
> it without a subshell and I ran in a few unexpected behaviours.
>
> In:
>
> zsh -c 'vared -c foo; echo $? $foo'
>
> If I press ^G (send-break widget), that exits the shell (with
> status 0), not just "vared".
>

I've had a somewhat similar problem:
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg00721.html

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