Re: Inserting flow-control chars with an mpsafetty kernel

From: <swell.k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:45 +0400
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> Hi Ed,
>
> After installing the mpsafetty changes it seems that flow-control ^S and
> ^Q characters cannot be inserted inserted anymore.  I first noticed this
> when CTRL-S stopped working as 'search-forward' in Emacs, but it seems
> the same problem exists in /usr/bin/vi, vim, bash and a few other
> programs that I tested.
>
> With a kernel before the mpsafetty changes, I can fire up /usr/bin/vi
> and type in insert-mode `^V^S'.  This correctly inserts a ^S character.
> With a kernel from svn revision /head_at_181939 ^V no longer quotes the
> next byte in vi(1) and other programs.

Could you possibly be trying to type them inside screen(1)? If so, are
they working correctly outside it?

If not, nevermind.
Received on Tue Aug 26 2008 - 09:01:47 UTC

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