Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

[Frank Schwidom <schwidom@impernet.de>]

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?
>
> joerg

Switching off ctrl-s is done by 'stty -ixon'. this is good for searching
forward in bash (searching backward is performed by ctrl-r).

Frank.