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Re: How to inactivate CTRL-S hold in a Mintty bash session or ssh connection

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:24:18 -0600
Subject: Re: How to inactivate CTRL-S hold in a Mintty bash session or ssh connection
References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4CF@THEZE.intra.cea.fr>

On 08/02/2010 07:17 AM, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Typing CTRL-S in a Mintty bash session has the effect of holding it
> until CTRL-Q is typed.
> It happens that CRTL-S is also the Windows standard for saving a file
> (NotePad, WordPad, Office ...) so that it is mapped to :w in my .vimrc.
> 
> Is there a way to inactivate this CTRL-S hold in Mintty.

Yes - use stty.  For example, my ~/.bash_profile contains:

if tty --quiet ; then
  stty start undef
fi

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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