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From: dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ^S (search-forward) on vt100
Summary: But can we do it from the editor code?
Message-ID: <698@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 22:02:17 GMT
References: <12278@steinmetz.ge.com> <39323@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
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In article <39323@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
> In article <12278@steinmetz.ge.com> nieh@geae2.steinmetz (KO-Haw nieh) writes:
> | 
> | 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.
> 

Our new VT300 series terminals are really smart, trapping not only
XON/XOFF, but other things as well.  You can turn the XON/XOFF off,
but it seems to me that DEC should provide more information to us
normal peons (translated non-professionals) so that we could do this
in the code itself.  By that I mean turning them off on the way into
the editor, and back on, on the way out.  I am sure that it can be
done, but I don't know how.  Any suggestions for a quick fix to make
the cursor keys work with MicroEMACS 3.9e?  I don't mind using ^n,
^p, ^f, and ^b but some other people using it do.  This is of course due
to something in termcap (which I do not have source for) and the cursor
keys work normally on other machines such as the Amiga and IBM.  I am
standardizing on this editor because it works well in cramped quarters.


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