Unable to pause nano in terminal

Question

Trying to learn how to use the terminal here.

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

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Jadam Apr 16 '13 at 17:25

3 answers

I was looking for a solution to this, and the accepted answer did not help me.

Setting set suspendin ~ / .nanorc works!

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E. Sundin 15 sept. '14 at 16:05

If you enter nano -z, it also works.

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Jessica guerard May 21, '15 at 14:26

piokuc · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-16T17:28:38+0000

This is easy to do by masking the SIGTSTP signal:

#include <signal.h>

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

What nano does is apparently.

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

allow nano to suspend

c $HOME/.nanorc.