Re: catting random bytes causes character craziness
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:21:14AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org> writes:
>
> Jamie> I'm guessing that what is going on is that some particular
> Jamie> sequence of bytes is putting the shell into a
> Jamie> Be-Crazy-Unicode mode or something,
>
> Do you (or your vendor) build with Mule? [A report with M-x
> report-emacs-bug (with a reasonably fresh net-utils package) tends to
> help here, bandwidth be damned.]
>
> I've seen similar lossage with *terms (I forget which flavor), but not
> in XEmacs yet.
Xterm and RXVT derivatives both show this, with RXVT derivative seeming
to be easier to trigger it in from my highly unscientific memories.
RXVT probably shows it too, but I never used that.
I solve it by:
$ echo [ESC]c
This seems to reset the terminal. The [ESC] needs to be a literal
escape. If in "vi" mode, that's:
$ echo ^V[ESC]c
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