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From: rwells@PROPHET.BBN.COM
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with flow control?
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Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 17:44:48 EST
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There is another approach to dealing with ^S/^Q that is worth
considering.  Your terminal or terminal emulator could have a mode in
which it translates keyboard entry of Control-S and Control-Q into
something else - either multi-character escape sequences or other
control characters.  You then initialize emacs to recognize these
translated sequences as equivalent to real ^S/^Q, something those of
us plagued with flow control problems already have to do anyway.  This
would allow you to type the nice mnemonic keystrokes while staying out
of the way of flow control.  There are probably existing ibmpc
terminal emulator programs with keystroke macros powerful enough to do
this kind of keyboard translation, if you are having flow control
problems when using a pc as a terminal.  -Robert