Escape
, and you will be
able to use that keystroke instead of <Escape>. Unfortunately,
some GUI-based terminals (most notably, gnome-terminal
) use <f1>
for their own purposes; in that case, you can assign the Escape
command to another key (see Configuration).
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does tilda expansion.ne
does interactive filename completion.ne
tries to emit as few characters as possible when updating the
screen. However, for each key you type it is likely that the status
bar has to be updated. If your connection is very slow, you can
disable the status bar to get a quicker response (see StatusBar).
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will immediately recognize the
<Escape> key code as such. Since non-alphabetical keys have no effect while
browsing through the menus, if you're forced to use <Escape> as menu
activator you can press, for instance, ‘,’ just after it to speed
up the menu activation (note that ‘:’ would not work, because it would
activate the command line). Alternatively, you can just type <Escape>
twice in a row.
\
n convention. But remember
always that regular expressions are much slower than a normal search: in
particular, if you use them on a UTF-8 text, ne
has to transform
them into an equivalent (but more complex) expression that cannot match
partially a UTF-8 sequence, and this expansion makes the search even
slower.
MoveEOW
command, which guarantee a correct behaviour in
all situations.
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and delete the line containing the
command setting the insert flag. When the autoprefs are loaded later, the
insert flag will be left untouched. This trick is particularly useful with
the StatusBar
and FastGUI
commands.
telnet
connection with xon/xoff flow control, <Control>-S and
<Control>-Q would block and release the output
instead of saving and quitting.
In these cases, if you do not need the system
feature you should check how to disable it: for instance, some bsd-like
systems feature a delayed suspend signal that is not in the posix
standard, and thus cannot be disabled by ne
. On hp-ux, the command
stty dsusp ^-
would disable the signal, and would let the control
sequence previously assigned to it to run up to ne
.