Gnu/coreutils/Local

19.2.4 Local settings

‘isig’

Enable interrupt, quit, and suspend special characters. May be negated.

‘icanon’

Enable erase, kill, werase, and rprnt special characters. May be negated.

‘iexten’

Enable non-POSIX special characters. May be negated.

‘echo’

Echo input characters. May be negated.

‘echoe’ ‘crterase’

Echo erase characters as backspace-space-backspace. May be negated.

‘echok’

Echo a newline after a kill character. May be negated.

‘echonl’

Echo newline even if not echoing other characters. May be negated.

‘noflsh’

Disable flushing after interrupt and quit special characters. May be negated.

‘xcase’

Enable input and output of uppercase characters by preceding their lowercase equivalents with ‘\’, when icanon is set. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘tostop’

Stop background jobs that try to write to the terminal. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘echoprt’ ‘prterase’

Echo erased characters backward, between ‘\’ and ‘/’. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘echoctl’ ‘ctlecho’

Echo control characters in hat notation (‘^c’) instead of literally. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘echoke’ ‘crtkill’

Echo the kill special character by erasing each character on the line as indicated by the echoprt and echoe settings, instead of by the echoctl and echok settings. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘extproc’

Enable ‘LINEMODE’, which is used to avoid echoing each character over high latency links. See also Internet RFC 1116. Non-POSIX. May be negated.

‘flusho’

Discard output. Note this setting is currently ignored on GNU/Linux systems. Non-POSIX. May be negated.