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Re: Control s does not work


From: Anselm Helbig
Subject: Re: Control s does not work
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:54:40 +0200
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/22.0 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI)

Hi, 

> 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 is a FAQ, see:

  
http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-21.1/html_chapter/faq_10.html#SEC139

Which raises another question: why is the Emacs FAQ not on gnu.org
with the rest of the documentation? Yes, I know, I should probably
file a bug report... 8;-)

Regards, 

Anselm


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