While inside the terminal I cannot press Ctrl+G. This is painful inside Emacs as it is the keybinding for cancelling a command. I believe it is bound to something else inside the terminal. How do I disable that or is it a bug?
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I also ran into this problem as an emacs user.
Ctrl-G does work but it's assigned to something else. I checked the source code (https://github.com/elementary/terminal/blob/master/src/PantheonTerminalWindow.vala) and it turns out that Ctrl-G is used for ACTION_SEARCH_NEXT You can see this behaviour if you click the little magnifying glass button in terminal's title bar and enter a search term. Pressing ctrl-g will jump to the next hit of the search term.
As a quick and dirty fix, my plan is to disable the ACTION_SEARCH_NEXT keybinding (maybe just comment it out) and recompile locally. Though I believe a bug should be filed. In my opinion, ctrl-g should only be mapped to ACTION_SEARCH_NEXT when the search bar is active. By the way, this keybinding is used in other built apps such as Code and Epiphany.
Another work-around for now would be to install another terminal emulator. eg: xterm.
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Thanks a bunch. I have created a issue for it. github.com/elementary/terminal/issues/306– satranCommented Oct 19, 2018 at 14:10
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The fix has merged to master. I don't know when it will be pushed out as an update though. Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 18:13