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- From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
- Subject: Re: C-s problems
- In-Reply-To: pedersen@seas.smu.edu's message of Tue, 11 Aug 1992 20:01:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <KEVIN.92Aug12100941@buffalobill.edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
- Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <1992Aug11.200128.25622@seas.smu.edu>
- Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:09:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.200128.25622@seas.smu.edu> pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen) writes:
-
- I am a new emacs user and am having a very good time learning my way around.
- However, a problem has come up. It seems that whenever I use the C-s key
- (either as a part of a C-x C-s command or to do a forward search) I just
- lock up. Nothing registers on the little mini buffer and I usually have to
- bail all the way out of emacs. Note that C-r (the backward search) works very
- well. Anybody have any ideas of what this might be and/or what I can do to
- get around it.
-
- Thanks,
- Ted Pedersen
-
-
- This looks like a flow control problem, because C-s (otherwise known as XOFF)
- is a standard way for a terminal to tell the host to stop sending it
- characters.
-
- Now, Emacs ought to set the terminal driver to pass flow control characters
- straight through (rather than action them), so my guess is you're using
- something like a DEC-VT220...
-
- In the `Communications Set-Up' menu is a field at the start of the second line
- which reads "XOFF at 64", "XOFF at 128" or "NO XOFF". If it is set to one of
- the first two, typing `C-s' causes the VT to lock the display _immediately_,
- wait for a few more characters (maybe), then send `C-s' to the host. What you
- need to do is set it to "NO XOFF" so that the VT passes `C-s' straight to the
- host.
-
- Mail me and let me know what you _are_ using if I've completely missed the
- mark!
- --
- Kevin Broadey, EDS-Scicon
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