From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 13:39:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 13:39:20 -0400 Received: from 3-CORU-X5.libre.retevision.es ([62.83.56.3]:53124 "HELO trasno.mitica") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 13:38:58 -0400 To: slurn@verisign.com Cc: george@mvista.com (george anzinger), kaos@melbourne.sgi.com (Keith Owens), kdb@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kdb wishlist In-Reply-To: <200105081657.JAA05739@slurndal-lnx.verisign.com> X-Url: http://www.lfcia.org/~quintela From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <200105081657.JAA05739@slurndal-lnx.verisign.com> Date: 08 May 2001 19:38:06 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "slurn" == slurn writes: >> >> Keith Owens wrote: >> > >> > This is part of my kdb wishlist, does anybody fancy writing the code to >> > add any of these features? It would be a nice project for anybody >> > wanting to start on the kernel. Replies to kdb@oss.sgi.com please. >> > Current patches at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ >> > >> > * Change kdb invocation key from ^A to ^X^X^X within 3 seconds. ^A is >> > used by emacs, bash, minicom etc. >> > >> ^X^X swaps point and mark in emacs. One (well, I) often will do >> ^X^X^X^X to examine where mark is and then return to point. slurn> How about using the break condition instead. This is only for the slurn> serial port, and most terminal emulators (e.g. kermit, minicom) provide slurn> a means to generate a break condition on the serial port. kdb uses BREAK in the serial port (that minicom uses C-a for sending a break is an anecdote :) But the problem at hang is the console. I vote for the ^X^X^X as I a think that it is not a difficult shortcut. (and yes, I also use emacs and ^X^X all the time, but I think that this combination is not specially bad, and I suppose that the pet aplication of other people will have problems with something like: ^A^A^A that I never use). Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy