I found it strange enough, still not clear about the reason: whenever I press Ctrl-s in a crxvt-gb window, it hangs. same to rxvt. all from rxvt-ml package. I press C-s because the (wrong) illusion of that will do me a search like as in Emacs. (It is "/" as in Vi indeed.) -- zhaoway -=- zw * zhaoway.com -=- http://www.zhaoway.com/ -=- blue ribbon GnuPG 1024D/7C0441F2 BF4F B39D A53E A9BB 1057 2364 652C 1BA6 7C04 41F2