Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:45 +0400 From: swell.k@gmail.com To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inserting flow-control chars with an mpsafetty kernel Message-ID: <86myj0xdou.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87fxot5hoi.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:48:45 %2B0300") References: <87fxot5hoi.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@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@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.
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