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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (D 1 4 U 2 C)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs ^Q & ^S problems
Message-ID: <14064@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 12:07:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 12:07:24 1987
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In article <20600002@silver> creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:

)    I'm having a little trouble with using Gnu Emacs, in that the thing
) thinks that flow control characters (^Q ^S) are commands. 

This probably belongs in a "commonly asked questions" file.

GNU emacs can handle these terminals.  When using such a terminal you
should execute (set-input-mode nil t).  Type that expression, with
the parens, after hitting ESCAPE twice, or put it into your ~/.emacs
file if you want it to always be in effect.

Documentation of set-input-mode:
Set mode of reading keyboard input.
First arg non-nil means use input interrupts; nil means use CBREAK mode.
Second arg non-nil means use ^S/^Q flow control for output to terminal
 (no effect except in CBREAK mode).

With this in effect, emacs will never see ^S and ^Q.

You can go a step further and get back the functions of ^S and ^Q on
some other keys without having to track down all the places they are
referenced by doing:
     (setq keyboard-translate-table
	   "\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016
\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\023\035\021\037")

(I have split the last line in two so it doesn't get munched on the
way out.  Splice it back together before using.)  This maps the keys
you type so that when you type ^\ or ^^, all parts of emacs except
for the very lowest input processor think that you have actually
typed ^S or ^Q respectively.
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