Joining The Conversation: Commode
by SyntaxError
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date: 2024-08-29
tags: #sdf #com #irc
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Yesterday I started to join the conversation with my fellows at SDF
on commode (com). I'm new so I mostly read what the people were
saying. I never used com so I was somewhat afraid of making some
stupid noob mistake with the commands and in fact I did (^_^;).

I pressed the ENTER key accidentally and didn't know how to get back to
command mode. Suddenly my line was full of desperate attempts to get
back to command mode. Ok, what do you do when you want to cut an
on going process on the cli? Press Ctrl-C ;)

Once I got out of com I entered again and asked how can I get back to
command mode if I mistakenly hit ENTER and @ffog told me: "press enter
again, leaving the line blank" (thank you very much). I also made
comments on Mastodon and @njsg added the following: "To cancel when
there's something already typed, I've been using ^U to clear, even
if there's something left in the screen after that (might depend on
the terminal or terminal emulator), it seems to be still interpreted
as empty by com?"

Probably tomorrow I'm going to hang out on SDF's IRC (and com).
See you there.