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From: rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problem with GNU Emacs.
Summary: C-s is flow controll.
Message-ID: <698@acrux.mdavcr.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 04:00:27 GMT
References: <6327@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: rdr@acrux.UUCP (Randolph Roesler)
Distribution: usa
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, Richmond, B.C., Canada
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In article Richard Stanton writes:
>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.

This is a big problem with GnuEmacs, on my system, turning flow control
off screws up the terminal servers.  It nice that the FSF provides
GnuEmacs to use masses, but I wish that Stallman was not so religous
about things like C-s should be "search", not "Stop" (xoff).

You might have to redefine all C-s key patterns. 

Has anybody done this. (is use M-s for search, and skip the other 
C-s bindings).


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