Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 03:09:48AM -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
> I frequently use Pico for quick text editing at the command line, &
> overall I love it, but I have one problem. By force of habit, I often
> hit 'Ctrl-s' to save. Unfortunately, this freezes the terminal, even
> killing the process doesn't work. If I'm running X, I can logout of X
> windows to free it up, but if I'm at the actual command line, the only
> way I was able to free it was a hard reset (obviously a bad idea...).
> 
> So a few questions. First, what exactly is going on? I can't imagine
> it's a bug, so it must be intentional, right? Second, assuming it is a
> bug, is there a way to override pico's default keybindings to use Ctrl-s
> for write-out instead of Ctrl-o? Finally, what's the proper way to kill
> a process that won't otherwise terminate, even with kill -9? 

When you're in a terminal session running something like pico, CTL-S stops
the terminal output. Hit CTL-Q to turn it on again.

Old telecomm flow control sequences... CTL-S = STOP, CTL-Q = START.


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