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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problem with GNU Emacs.
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Date: 7 Dec 89 23:59:49 GMT
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In article <3071@uceng.UC.EDU>,
sramacha@uceng.UC.EDU (Sridhar Ramachandran) writes:
>
>I have been having a problem with my GNU Emacs. Whenever I use
>a sequence with C-S in it like search-forward and saving-buffers,
>I scroll lock the terminal. It is as if Emacs hasn't read the
>C-S at all. Then I have to type C-q to unlock the screen.
>I am using a terminal with vt100 settings and default
>Emacs settings.
>
Your problem is that somewhere in the connection between your
terminal/PC whatever and the host computer, the C-S is being
interpreted as a flow control character before it gets sent to
EMACS. Typing C-Q is the counterpart XON command, which unfreezes
things.

I don't know exactly your setup but on the systems I have had this
problem on, I have to escape back to telnet etc (usually using a
command like C-^, or C-^x) then switch off flowcontrol using a
command like "set flowcontrolto=none" (TELNET) or
"term flow none" (Stanford tip). This will solve your problem.

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu