disabling ctrl-e key

shyam_6 — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:23:22 GMT

Hi all

I want to disable ctrl-e key so that it wont respond for user if he presses ctrl-e.i am not getting signal number for ctrl-e key.With signal number i hope i can use the command
trap '' in user profile.
OS : tru64unix 4.0f
user shell is KSH.Is there any other way to acheive this.

Thanks

Re: disabling ctrl-e key

Dave Bechtold — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:52:58 GMT

Hello,

Are the users entering the e while at a ksh prompt or from within a program. like vi ?

If the user is at a shell prompt then take a look at the terminal characteristics using "stty -a" and see if they have set a special character using e = ^E for something like eol. These can be set using stty command, check the man page. Also, if the user is setup for emacs/gmacs editing mode in ksh the e will move the cursor to the end of the current line - this is a builtin feature with use emacs editing mode within ksh. I'm not sure if that is configurable.

If it's within a program then I believe the program/application would be setting this up.

By default using TERM type of vt100 or vt320 within ksh, e does nothing more than echo the character sequence back - ^E.

Hope this helps,
Dave Bechtold

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