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Can't pause nano in terminal

Trying to learn how to use terminal here.

So I can use ctrl-z to pause other processes, but for some reason it does not work in nano. Why that would be?

Solution

  • This can be easily done by masking the SIGTSTP signal:

    #include <signal.h>

signal(SIGTSTP,SIG_IGN); /* disable ctrl-Z */

    That's what nano is doing, apparently.

    If you want nano to allow you for suspending it with ctrl-z you can put the line:

    set suspend

    into your $HOME/.nanorc.