Oh no. I've been shadowing a problem call hours in I noticed they had accidentally clicked in a Cmd window, which pauses it. They had been waiting on a paused screen for hours.
@SwiftOnSecurity
I don't know what annoys me more
1) that so many people don't know about this oddity or
2) that this utter brainfart is even a thing.
@SwiftOnSecurity technically I think it only pauses if you select some text, but it's easy to do accidentally if you click and drag just a little bit. It's left me with a compulsive need to hit Esc about a dozen times every time I focus a long-running cmd task, just to make sure it's still going.
@SwiftOnSecurity Ah, you want our Select Support team, I'll transfer you now.
@SwiftOnSecurity This shit kills me when dealing with DSC all the time and I hate it
@SwiftOnSecurity let he who has not sat terrified that the disk was dead when it was just a bad click in cmd.exe cast the first click.
@SwiftOnSecurity this is one reason why I get grumpy at devs who make commands be very very very quiet & take ages - you can't tell the difference between it hanging or just working very hard in the background!
@SwiftOnSecurity which reminded me that on the Amiga, holding the right mouse button would block display updates, so that became a super way to pause console window scrolling. (That had to do with how the UI preserved the pixels behind the pull down menus — those pixels had to not change)
➖@SwiftOnSecurity which is a great reason to output some type of progress indicator…
@SwiftOnSecurity i have strace'd programs in the past just to give myself the confirmation lol
@itf yes sorry I meant clicked and selected it
@itf @SwiftOnSecurity Right. When something is selected the program stalls on the next read/write to the console. It's there so you can select something without it scrolling past (or changing), but it's also very unintuitive.
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