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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Emacs user-interface problem. uEmacs 3.10.
Keywords: ^S ^Q
Message-ID: <7759@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 13:44:34 GMT
References: <6474@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <6474@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I'm sure there's a standard answer to this, but what is the canonical
>binding for search and quote when ^S and ^Q are co-opted by software
>handshaking? 




Well, in the past I have used Prime Emacs, in which that problem was
addressed in a couple of different ways, depending on the user's preference.
One of them was to allow the editor to turn off xon/xoff flow control
while it was executing, so that ^s and ^q could be used for searching, etc.
The other way was to provide built-in alternate bindings for those two keys.
The alternate bindings for ^S were ^X-S and ESC-S. 

In MicroEmacs it should not be difficult to provide such an alternate binding
inyour emacs.rc file. I believe that neither of those sequences is already
bound by default.

Fred