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Re: XOFF (C-s) on ptys works by default



Marc SCHAEFER (12024-11-05):
> It could have been handy on a real tty

It is very handy on emulated ttys too. You never had the output of
tcpdump / tail -f /var/log/… / make you wanted to pause to inspect
something?

> It can be annoying because some users will not know that they can
> get out of the "pause" by typing C-q, after they types C-s by
> mistake.

Then the first time it happens to them they will search for “linux
terminal frozen” on the web and learn something.

> Just curious whether there is a reason why it is not disabled in .bashrc?

Changing random things from defaults in unrelated configuration files is
not a good practice.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George


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