Ctrl+C sends a SIGINT signal. kill -INT <pid> sends a SIGINT signal too: # Terminates the program (like Ctrl+C) kill -INT 888 # Force kill kill -9 888 Assuming 888 is your process ID. Note that kill 888 sends a SIGTERM signal, which is slightly different, but will also ask for the program to stop. … Read more
There is a command line option for logging. The output is saved to screenlog.n file, where n is a number of the screen. From man pages of screen: ‘-L’ Tell screen to turn on automatic output logging for the windows.
To ‘background’ a process when you start it Simply add an ampersand (&) after the command. If the program writes to standard out, it will still write to your console / terminal. To foreground the process Simply use the fg command. You can see a list of jobs in the background with jobs. For example: … Read more
Emacs has a complex mechanism to handle the vicissitudes of function key and modifier encodings on various terminal types. It doesn’t work out of the box in all cases. The following settings should work on your terminal: (define-key input-decode-map “\e\eOA” [(meta up)]) (define-key input-decode-map “\e\eOB” [(meta down)]) (global-set-key [(meta up)] ‘transpose-line-up) (global-set-key [(meta down)] ‘transpose-line-down) … Read more
Lanterna I found the Lanterna library recently. Haven’t had the opportunity to use it yet but it looks like a more up-to-date alternative to the others.