Once upon a time Nate Duehr said... > > On Sunday, Jan 18, 2004, at 13:28 America/Denver, Yan Xu wrote: > > >I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I > >have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s > >key will not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's > >annoying. I have to reboot the machine to get the s key to work again. > >But, I do need Ctrl - s, especially when using Emacs to edit > >something. Anyone know how to resolve this problem. > > Welcome to the 1980's. You've sent an XOFF command to your terminal. > Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q are interpreted as XON and XOFF -- serial line > software flow-control. > > Normal behavior. Hit Ctrl-Q to continue. :-)
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