Re: Control s does not work

[Andrea Vettorello]

On 7/18/07, Lamont, Brian-p3354c <Brian.Lamont@gdc4s.com> wrote:
> I'm very new to emacs, and trying to fix a customers problem.  The forward
> search, cntl s does not do anything.   Only in some cases, the other cntl
> sequences I use will work like C-x C-c, and C-r for reverse search.   Other
> cases, the terminal is hung and I cannot break from it.  This happens
> accessing the system with putty, CDE, gnome, as root, or as another account.
>  This happens on solaris 8 and 9, but the systems in question are RHEL 3
> updt 4 with GNU Emacs 21.3.1  On this redhat system, the C-r, C-x, C-c will
> work, but not C-s.

This will not solve your problem, but i suppose it's the expected
behaviour on a terminal (the hang i mean) as Ctrl-s is usually bind to
the stop character (IIRC Ctrl-q should be the start character).

Here, with, zsh it's disabled using "unsetopt flowcontrol", but i've
done it only to have in the shell a working "history incremental
search forward" when i use Ctrl-s. From what i recall, it has never
been a problem when using Emacs...


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Andrea