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RE: Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q in rxvt/bash


> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>
> > I'm running bash inside an rxvt window, and Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q seem to be
> > behaving as xoff and xon, making them unusable for line
> > editing. Is there
> > anywhere that this can be turned off? I can't find anything in
> > the man pages for rxvt or bash.
>
> This is a function of a terminal.
> See "man stty" -- in particular, 'stty start ""; stty stop ""'.
>
> > Also, is there any way to get cursor keys to transmit something
> > other than
> > an escape sequence? I'd like to use ESC as the kill-entire-line
> > character.
>
> Nope, that, again, is a function of the terminal.  However, you should be
> able to map a lone ESC character separately from the escape sequences.
> See "info readline" and "help bind".

Thanks for that info. I thought rxvt WAS the terminal. So there's yet
another layer in there? Does stty lie between bash and rxvt? Obviously, I'm
not a Unixer.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com


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