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From: conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Gnu Emacs ^S problem with telnet.
Message-ID: <6930005@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 00:01:16 GMT
Organization: HP Design Tech. Lab., Palo Alto, CA
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I frequently run Gnu emacs on a remote host via telnet.  One problem that I
have with this procedure which I have not yet been able to solve is the fact
that telnet doesn't ever seem to go into completely raw mode in Gnu emacs.  In
particular, ^S remains cooked, and thus is never passed to emacs.  This is
extremely annoying because it slows me down considerably when I am trying to
search or save a file.  Rather than use a single keystroke or two, I must type
in the name of the search or save function.

This appears to be a telnet problem rather than an emacs problem, but I am not
completely certain.  Is there some reason why Gnu emacs is unable to put
telnet completely into raw mode?  I am able to do this manually by executing
the command 'stty raw'.

I am using Gnu emacs versions 18.51 and 18.52 on HP 9000 series 300 and series
800 machines.

I am posting this here in the hope that someone else has seen this problem
and has a solution.

Dan Conway
dan_conway@hplabs.hp.com