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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why <CTRL>+S does block a terminal ???
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () conectiva ! com ! ar>
Date:       2001-03-13 15:04:01
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> Sorry for being off-topic, but probably the answer is simple.
> 
> When typing <CTRL>-S, my terminal is blocked (doesn't accept anything). Really
> annoying as in "csh", <CTRL>-D is for completion listing, and <S> is beside <D>...
> (too easy to type <S> instead of <D>).

Tradition!

^S is Xoff. ^Q is Xon. It's called Xon/Xoff flow control :-)

You should not use EOF (^D) as completion character, either ;-)

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