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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 22:23:02 JST Julia Evans

   I'd love ideas for how to intentionally "break" my terminal so that one of these 4 things happen:

   1. backspace doesn’t work, it prints ^H instead
   2. terminal won't echo my characters when you type them
   3. the line not breaking, and the terminal pasting new characters over old ones
   4. overflowing the line, and when I backspace, the line is poorly redrawn

   ideally I'd love steps that are:

   a) specific
   b) might (more or less) "realistically” happen while using the terminal normally
   c) not Ctrl-S

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     Random Damage 🌻 (randomdamage@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 22:23:00 JST Random Damage 🌻

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     @b0rk interrupting password entry with ctrl-c or ctrl-\ frequently leaves the terminal in a no-echo mode so you can't see what you are typing

     The reset command usually fixes most terminal issues, but you might need to type ctrl-m instead of return for it to take

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 22:23:08 JST feld

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     @RandomDamage @b0rk ctrl-m ... that's a trick I wasn't aware of
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 22:23:58 JST feld

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     @b0rk I wonder if this is something fish shell is protecting you from
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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 22:23:59 JST Julia Evans

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     thanks for all the suggestions for how to break my terminal, here are the ones that have worked for me so far:

     1. start a less capable shell (like dash), then `cat /usr/bin/vim` (screenshot included)
     2. start `screen` and then `kill -9` it. Breaks my terminal in a way that can't be fixed with `reset`.
     3. start `htop` in bash/zsh and then `kill -9` it. Causes using the mouse to print control characters. (doesn't break in fish though)
     4. killing almost any TUI app in bash/zsh seems to break it