^G/^C in shell on Windows

[Raimo Niskanen]

Well, it is kind of a known thing...

The command "erl" on windows corresponds to "erl -oldshell" on Unix, and 
the "-oldshell" option causes ^G to do just what you describes. Note 
also that almost no command line editing works. This shell can (on Unix) 
be used against non-terminals e.g pipes.

^C on Unix brings up the break handler menu as you describes, but 
rumours here say that we could not get the break handler menu to work on 
Windows so it was disabled. Therefore you exit the emulator, but you 
should not have gotten a break handler menu. That is probably a bug.

/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.



Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that ^G doesn't work for me: what it seems to do is just start
> another shell (or restart the other one), because I get the "Eshell
> V5.2.3.3" banner and the prompt is reset to 1.
> 
> Pressing ^C on the other hand, prints the "BREAK: (a)bort....." message but
> doesn't wait for any input, it just ends execution. Sometimes not even the
> message gets printed but the program crashes (there comes a "The memory
> could not be read" error), but I think this latter has to do with port
> programs running.
> 
> This is in erl.exe, not werl.exe. Werl works fine.
> 
> Should I gather some more data and submit it for analysis, or is it a known
> thing?
> 
> regards,
> Vlad