Colin Watson wrote:
[...] You can hit Ctrl-S as messages are scrolling up the screen to pause them. Hit Ctrl-Q to resume when you're ready.
Thank you so much. You just solved my problem:I hit Ctrl-S quite often accidently. Either missing the Ctrl-D by just one key to the left, or by hitting emacs's Ctrl-XSXC for "Save&Quit" within bash, vi or mutt... :)
The only way I could get out was killing the shell/xterm. Stefan