Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> 
> > Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
> > sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
> > from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
> 
> ^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . try ^Q if this freezes
> things.
> 
> rick
> 


	FWIW.  ^S and ^Q are used on the tty for XON/XOFF processing.  For
those who mentioned that they are often hitting ^S by accident, you can
disable ^S/^Q with the command 'stty -ixon'.


-- 
Ed C.