[scottlamb]

...then again, as the same problem could happen with any program crashing, one could argue it should be the shell's responsibility to reset terminal state after each program invocation. It could do so blindly (always send the disable codes) or set up ptys for children + pipe program output through itself and watch for state changes that need to be reset. I wonder if any shells do this, or if any common rc scripts set post-command execution wrappers to do so.