From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 22.1.92; Tutorial: references to non-existing info nodes Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:34:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87hcfecbii.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205336175 25714 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 15:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 16:36:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZT05-0003c6-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:36:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSzS-0005z1-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSzO-0005yP-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSzI-0005xJ-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSzI-0005xG-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZSzB-0007pF-7j; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBFE33B6C8; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:34:49 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: ...Just enough time to do my LIBERACE impression... In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 12 Mar 2008 11\:12\:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92296 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > | Another explanation of the problem I found is that under the cons= ole > | C-s disables input and C-q reenables it - which indeed is the cas= e, > | but doesn't make much sense under a xterminal, does it? > > Does this qualify as flow control problem? > > I don't think so. It looks like he has encountered the fact that C-s > and C-q _typed by the user_ operate as commands that turn output off > and on. This is the same XON/XOFF (software) flow control, whether typed by the user or generated by a terminal is not relevant. > The solution is simply to turn off their effect (and I think > Emacs does that in sysdep.c, so why isn't it working?). The OP in the cited thread had that explicitly enabled due to a misunderstanding. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."