Interrupting hexyl with ^C leaves ugly remnant about hexyl

[sharkdp]

Thank you for reporting this. This should be easy to fix, yes.

[sharkdp]

Fixed in v0.4.0.

[vi]

Reproducible in multiple terminal emulators. Consistenly nice only in linux text terminal.

[DannyCork]

This is what ctrl-c looks like on Mac OS X

[sharkdp]

If somebody has an idea how to fix this, let me know.

[domenpk]

Well, part of the problem is synchronous handling of ctrl+c. If you move process exit into the handler, the situation improves. I'm not sure what's actually safe to be called from a signal handler in Rust though (normally described in: man 7 signal-safety).

It's still a bit of a problem, I assume because of stdout buffering. May need some uglier tricks to work around (setbuf?).

[secworks]

A possibly related issue is that on MacOS, when running hexyl without any input the application can't be terminated. Like this:

This is with hexyl 0.6.0 on MacOS 10.14.6

[sharkdp]

@secworks That looks like a different bug to me (much less esoteric than this one; thank you for reporting it). It would be great if you could create a new ticket.

[sharkdp]

With the changes in #84, this is now open again. In my terminal and on zsh, this is not an issue. But apparently it causes problems in some terminal/shell combinations.

[sandorex]

@sharkdp Have you tried using alternative buffer when opening the application ?
The smcup / rmcup capability of the terminal ?

[bjorn3]

Using an alternative buffer would mean that you have to handle scrolling yourself and you can't see the output anymore after you exit hexyl.

[sandorex]

I guess the only other thing i can think of is disabling echo and reenabling it after quitting, but you probably already did that right?

[sharkdp]

I'm not sure what that means?

[sandorex]

echo is when you press a key it displays on the terminal, but i think it is already disabled otherwise any key would be visible on a press

[bjorn3]

Echo is enabled. I can still type stuff while I run cat /dev/zero | pv -q -L 16 | hexyl (read zeros at a rate of 16 bytes per second)

[sandorex]

@bjorn3 You are right

I've been able to test it with little bash (does not work on zsh)

orig=$(stty -g)
stty -echo
hexyl /dev/urandom
stty $orig

And it doesnt show the ^C anymore

[sharkdp]

I'm closing this due to inactivity. And because I can not reproduce this on my machine. Please feel free to comment in case it should be re-opened.