[ale] shell question

[J. D.]

2008/12/12 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:10:46 -0500
> "J. D." <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2008/12/11 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> > > This is a historical feature of terminals, known as soft flow
> > > control. One would often use it on a very slow serial terminal
> > > connection to perform manual pagination of sorts.
> >
> > I see. That makes sense. I guess we use pagers for that now.
> >
>
> Pretty much.  Unless people out there still regularly use 300 bps
> modems to communicate somewhere... <g>
>
> > > Some software that runs in the terminal (such as Emacs) overrides
> > > that behavior, since Emacs uses both C-s and C-q key combinations.
> > > I am relatively certain that means that there is a way to disable it
> > > generally, but it's never been a problem for me so I don't know what
> > > the process for that would be.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I use ctrl-d quite a bit and occasionally
> > it becomes ctrl-s due to typo.
>
> I've done that myself.  And I should have done it enough times to
> recognize when I do it by now, but sometimes still I go "why the hell
> is my terminal hung‽"
>
> > Great presentation on DR by the way. I just read over it. Thanks
> > for the link.
>
> >I can't take credit for that, that wasn't me.  :)
>
>   >     --- Mike
>


Hmm not sure where that one came from. Thanks Mike Warfield for the info. :)
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