From 458f12a97987af67831b1f33730ddc16bcb4ff04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Chase Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:08:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Annotate ^Y/DSUSP issue on BSDs caused by `stty` On at least FreeBSD & OpenBSD, typing `^Y` will send a `DSUSP` signal, suspending the process. Annotate the issue along with a solution to allow `^Y` to work on these. There may be similar issues on NetBSD or possibly on OSX, but I don't have either available for testing. --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b7c77815..c81b91ba 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -504,6 +504,10 @@ Enable volume management in your DE file manager and set removable drives or med `nnn` might not handle keypresses correctly when used with tmux (see issue #104 for more details). Set `TERM=xterm-256color` to address it. +#### BSD terminal issue + +By default in OpenBSD & FreeBSD, `stty` maps `^Y` to `DSUSP`. This means that typing `^Y` will suspend `nnn` as if you typed `^Z` (you can bring `nnn` back to the foreground by issuing `fg`) instead of entering multi-copy mode. You can check this with `stty -a`. If it includes the text "`dsusp = ^Y`", issuing `stty dsusp undef` will disable this `DSUSP` and let `nnn` receive the `^Y` instead. + #### WHY FORK? `nnn` was initially forked from [noice](http://git.2f30.org/noice/) but is significantly [different](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/nnn-vs.-noice) today. I chose to fork because: