Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:09:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: swell.k@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inserting flow-control chars with an mpsafetty kernel Message-ID: <8763po58y9.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <86myj0xdou.fsf@gmail.com> (swell k.'s message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:45 %2B0400") References: <87fxot5hoi.fsf@kobe.laptop> <86myj0xdou.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:45 +0400, swell.k@gmail.com wrote: > 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? Yes. I was using screen when I tried this. Now that I tried outside of screen, C-s and C-q work in Emacs and ^V^S or ^V^Q works in /usr/bin/vi. Is this a known bug of screen? Are there already patches floating around to fix it?
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