Inserting flow-control chars with an mpsafetty kernel

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Aug 26 11:45:40 UTC 2008


On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:02 +0400, swell.k at gmail.com wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> writes:
>> 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?
>
> I don't know. What I know that it was way before mpsafetty was merged
> in -current. It didn't really bother me to verify and report it since
> I don't use non-windowed Emacs often enough. But from my observation
> ^S/^Q do work in copy mode and it still present in screen.git too and
> didn't fixed in mpsafetty-20080824.diff.gz.
>
> So it's just `me too', sorry.

Fair enough, thanks for the tip about screen.  At least now I know where
to look for more details :D



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