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From: ugwiles@sybil (Dale Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ^S (search-forward) on vt100
Message-ID: <1672@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 88 14:59:32 GMT
References: <12278@steinmetz.ge.com>
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In-reply-to: nieh@geae2.steinmetz (nico nieh)

In article <12278@steinmetz.ge.com>, nieh@geae2 (nico nieh) writes:
>
>I remembered people had trouble about ^S(search-forward) while 
>using emacs on vt100. Now I am having the same problem.
>
>Can someone out there give me some help.
>
  The trouble we had with ^S with GNU-EMACS was that it locked up the
screen. We also had Emacs sending the random ^S/^Q to the screen. If
this is the same trouble your having, it isn't really Emacs's fault.
^S/^Q are standard flow control commands on some systems. ^S is the
control command to tell the host computer to stop sending stuff to the
screen.  ^Q is the command to tell it to start again. Unfortunatly,
Emacs also likes to use ^S and ^Q for it's own commands, hence the
problem.

  The way we fixed it is to first tell Emacs to stop printing the
^S/^Q's to the screen, and start interpreting them like a good little
editor, and then we told it to convert all of it's ^S/^Q commands to
use other keys. Just add this to your .emacs file and ^] and ^\ will
give you ^S and ^Q respectivly.

(enable-flow-control)		; Under stand ^S/^Q protocal.
; void out the keys ^S and ^Q.
; Make ^] behave like ^S and make ^\ behave like ^\
(setq keyboard-translate-table "/C-@/C-A/C-B/C-C/C-D/C-E/C-F/C-G/C-H/C-I/C-J/C-K/C-L/C-M/C-N/C-O/C-P/C-@/C-R/C-@/C-T/C-U/C-V/C-W/C-X/C-Y/C-Z/C-[/C-Q/C-S/C-^/C-_"

That should do it.
>Thanks,
  Your welcome.
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