Marc SCHAEFER (12024-11-05): > It could have been handy on a real tty It is very handy on emulated ttys too. You never had the output of tcpdump / tail -f /var/log/… / make you wanted to pause to inspect something?
> It can be annoying because some users will not know that they can > get out of the "pause" by typing C-q, after they types C-s by > mistake. Then the first time it happens to them they will search for “linux terminal frozen” on the web and learn something. > Just curious whether there is a reason why it is not disabled in .bashrc? Changing random things from defaults in unrelated configuration files is not a good practice. Regards, -- Nicolas George