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From: mly@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Mlynarik)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: termcap, flow control, emacs
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 18:09:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 18:09:35 1987
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   From: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
   Date: 21 Jun 87 18:44:36 GMT
   References: <1263@crash.CTS.COM>

   Really, wasn't one of the reasons for ^s/^q to be in-band was so that
   they could be generated by the user? At least in the CP/M micro world,
   they were used as flow control for the USER, not just the terminal. The
   standard way for a user to pause output in order to have time to read it
   was to hit ^s.

   Given the age of the 'emacs' series of editors, why did they overload ^s
   even further? RMS, Gosling, anyone out there know? I would guess it was
   simply mnemonic for 'Search', but what equipment of that day let them
   get away with it?

What pathetic brain-damaged equipment are your using here in the
future which won't let you `get away with it?'  You should probably
throw it away --- one could do better than that fifteen years ago.
(But then again, we're using un*x...)