"Joerg Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:51, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:33:47AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
>> > Hey all -
>> >
>> > I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends
>> > input... I have not figured out how to successfully get out of that
>> > situation. Is there a graceful way? What is the purpose of ctrl+s
>> > ( i believe I have the emacs style command line editor )? How can
>> > I disable ctrl+s or alter it so that it does not freeze my
>> > console/xterm?
>>
>> Note that control-S doesn't suspend input. It suspends OUTPUT!
>> control-Q lets the output go again.
>
> As Roger already asked: Is there a way to disable this Ctrl-S shortcut?
Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q is actually the XON/XOFF protocol. If you've been around
long enough you'll be familiar with that. It was used a lot for slow
terminals and for slow modems. You can disable it in most terminal
types using stty. For example:
stty -ixon
will disable Ctrl+S. See "man stty" for more details on XON/XOFF.
Gary
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