Ben Beuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 27 Jul 2000:
> It turns out that it
> was the \Cs. For some reason mutt didn't like using ^s as a macro. No
> matter what I specified there, it locked up. I checked and it is not
> being used anywhere else in the config. My Eterm doesn't have anything
> bound to that... Very weird. I changed the keystroke to 'Z' and it
> worked fine.
D'oh! Of course. I didn't realise it was bound to ^S.
^S is the terminal flow-control character (stop-sending). This dates
back to the time of 7bit, non-hardware-flow control links. ^S was used
to indicate that the terminal sending output should stop, and ^Q was
sent for "all clear" and sending data could resume. This is also known
as the XON/XOFF flow control.
Most (unix) terminals still support this, even if in almost all cases
flow control is not needed at all, or it could be handled with hardware
flow control. You *can* disable it, thus freeing ^S and ^Q for other
uses, but it's enabled by default in most terminal programs (I think).
Regards,
Mikko
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