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Why do I have to hit Ctrl+P twice to send Ctrl+P once?

April 26, 2017CTRL+P hit send twice

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Why do I have to hit Ctrl+P twice to send Ctrl+P once?

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CTRL+P is the default force character, used to tell tip(1) that the next character is literal data. You can set the force character to any other character with the ~s escape, which means set a variable. Type ~sforce=single-char followed by a newline. single-char is any single character. If you leave out single-char, then the force character is the nul character, which you can get by typing CTRL+2 or CTRL+SPACE. A pretty good value for single-char is SHIFT+CTRL+6, which I have seen only used on some terminal servers. You can have the force character be whatever you want by specifying the following in your $HOME/.

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CTRL+P is the default “force” character, used to tell tip(1) that the next character is literal data. You can set the force character to any other character with the ~s escape, which means “set a variable”. Type ~sforce=single-char followed by a newline. single-char is any single character. If you leave out single-char, then the force character is the nul character, which you can get by typing CTRL+2 or CTRL+SPACE. A pretty good value for single-char is SHIFT+CTRL+6, which I have seen only used on some terminal servers. You can have the force character be whatever you want by specifying the following in your $HOME/.

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CTRL+P is the default “force” character, used to tell tip that the next character is literal data. You can set the force character to any other character with the ~s escape, which means “set a variable.” Type “~sforce=” followed by a newline. is any single character. If you leave out , then the force character is the nul character, which you can get by typing CTRL+2 or CTRL+SPACE. A pretty good value for is SHIFT+CTRL+6, which I’ve seen only used on some terminal servers. You can have the force character be whatever you want by specifying the following in your $HOME/.

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CTRL+P is the default “force” character, used to tell tip(1) that the next character is literal data. You can set the force character to any other character with the ~s escape, which means “set a variable”. Type ~sforce=single-char followed by a newline. single-char is any single character. If you leave out single-char, then the force character is the nul character, which you can get by typing CTRL+2 or CTRL+SPACE. A pretty good value for single-char is SHIFT+CTRL+6, which I have seen only used on some terminal servers. You can have the force character be whatever you want by specifying the following in your $HOME/.