Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:30:37PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:51, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:33:47AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > > Hey all -
> > >
> > > I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends
> > > input... I have not figured out how to successfully get out of that
> > > situation. Is there a graceful way? What is the purpose of ctrl+s
> > > ( i believe I have the emacs style command line editor )? How can
> > > I disable ctrl+s or alter it so that it does not freeze my
> > > console/xterm?
> >
> > Note that control-S doesn't suspend input. It suspends OUTPUT!
> > control-Q lets the output go again.
>
> As Roger already asked: Is there a way to disable this Ctrl-S shortcut?
man stty
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