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@@ -2,9 +2,20 @@
 KNOWN BUGS IN ZSH
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+On some terminals, display of lines with exactly 80 characters is
+problematic.  zsh assumes that the terminal does not print an extra
+newline in this case, but some terminals (e.g. aixterm) do.
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-Completion has a habit of doing the wrong thing after a
-backslash/newline.
+When interrupting code like the following with ^C:
+  while true; do
+    sh -c '...'
+  done
+if the `sh' is executing, zsh does not know that the sh received a ^C and
+continues with the next iteration.  This happens for any program which
+handles the interrupt, then exits after tidying up; it does not happen for
+zsh, which exits directly from the signal handler.  The workaround is to
+use ^Z which forks the shell and makes the loop a separate job, then kill
+the suspended loop.
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 If you suspend "man", zle seems to get into cooked mode.  It works ok
 for plain "less".
@@ -26,12 +37,6 @@ Then if you suspend
 % foo less something
 from zsh/bash, zle/readline gets into cooked mode.
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-% zsh -c 'cat a_long_file | less ; :'
-can be interrupted with ^C. The prompt comes back and less is orphaned.
-If you go to the end of the file with less and cat terminates, ^C
-will not terminate less. The `; :' after less forces zsh to fork before
-executing less.
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 The pattern %?* matches names beginning with %? instead of names with at
 least two characters beginning with %. This is a hack to allow %?foo job
 substitution without quoting. This behaviour is incompatible with sh