From a57925a23df92e7e41877778756f98ee4aae5766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Penz Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:28:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Send CTRL+C to the terminal instead of of backspaces. Thanks to the FiNeX and g111 for the hint. CCBUG: 161637 svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/; revision=1106403 --- src/panels/terminal/terminalpanel.cpp | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/panels/terminal/terminalpanel.cpp b/src/panels/terminal/terminalpanel.cpp index 856eed4c0f..d6b3703293 100644 --- a/src/panels/terminal/terminalpanel.cpp +++ b/src/panels/terminal/terminalpanel.cpp @@ -121,12 +121,11 @@ void TerminalPanel::sendCdToTerminal(const QString& dir) // The TerminalV2 interface does not provide a way to delete the // current line before sending a new input. This is mandatory, // otherwise sending a 'cd x' to a existing 'rm -rf *' might - // result in data loss. As workaround backspaces are send... - QString clearLine; - for (int i = 0; i < 256; ++i) { - clearLine.append(QChar(8)); - } - m_terminal->sendInput(clearLine); + // result in data loss. As workaround Ctrl+C is send. + QString cancel; + cancel.append(QChar(3)); + cancel.append(QChar('c')); + m_terminal->sendInput(cancel); } m_terminal->sendInput("cd " + KShell::quoteArg(dir) + '\n');