Beginning Linux user: “Ctrl-Z is undo, right?”

Advanced Linux user: “Ctrl-Z dammit fg”

  • tal@lemmy.today
    16·
    2 years ago

    Control-Q

    Or you can disable software flow control in cooked mode with stty -ixon and then Control-S won’t suspend flow.

    EDIT: If you use screen or tmux, I suppose that you probably don’t need software flow control anyway from a UI standpoint, because both will suspend flow if you enter their copy mode, which acts similarly.

    • vector_zero@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Bonus when you disable software flow control: In addition to Ctrl+r to reverse search through commands, you can search forward via Ctrl+s