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Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem




On Sunday, Jan 18, 2004, at 13:28 America/Denver, Yan Xu wrote:

I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's annoying. I have to reboot the machine to get the s key to work again. But, I do need Ctrl - s, especially when using Emacs to edit something. Anyone know how to resolve this problem.

Welcome to the 1980's. You've sent an XOFF command to your terminal. Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q are interpreted as XON and XOFF -- serial line software flow-control.

Normal behavior.  Hit Ctrl-Q to continue.  :-)
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Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com



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