David Pashley spoo'd forth:
> On Monday 23 September 2002 3:49 am, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>> Am Montag, 23. September 2002 03:40 schrieb Donald R. Spoon:
>> > Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>> > > sometimes I accidently hit Ctrl-S instead of Shift-S. This seems to
>> > > disable the ability to do any keyboard input to that session. So what's
>> > > wrong? How can I reenable input without closing the window and opening
>> > > a new one?
>> >
>> > Try hitting Ctrl-Q and see what happens
>>
>> Thanks, that really did it. Is there a way to disable this behaviour?
>>
> This is dealt with by the same thing that deals with ctrl-C and ctrl-\. AIUI
> that is the kernel. They are signals SIGSTOP and SIGCONT iirc. So basically
> you don't have much chance of stopping it.
Look at the stty command, in particular "stty start" and "stty stop",
which define the stop and start keypresses. You can change what each of
these are (so you can change the start character from ^S to something
else), although I have no idea whether you can use a "Rollen" key.
sil
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