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From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ^S (search-forward) on vt100
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Date: 1 Oct 88 19:03:55 GMT
References: <12278@steinmetz.ge.com>
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In article <12278@steinmetz.ge.com> nieh@geae2.steinmetz (KO-Haw nieh) writes:
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| I remembered people had trouble about ^S(search-forward) while 
| using emacs on vt100. Now I am having the same problem.
| 

VT100 uses ctrl-S as an XOF signal (suspend output). It probably
freezes everything until you hit ^Q (XON). If this is your problem,
try assigning search (and ^X^S - save - as well) to a different key
using global-set-key. There might be a way on your configuration to
disable XON/XOFF altogether.

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