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From: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs under flow control
Message-ID: <1195@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:30:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcrvx1.1195
Posted: Mon Jul  8 16:30:04 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 01:36:19 EDT
References: <2899@cornell.UUCP> <466@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <466@bu-cs.UUCP> root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>> ... Has any standard
>>arisen?  How many users would scream "bloody murder" if ^\ were mapped on
>>input to ^Q and ^] to ^S?
>
>...  Yes, ^\ and ^] seem to be good replacement candidates for
>^S/^Q (funny, of course we chose the exact opposite order you did.)
>
>... Yes, it would be nice if
>there were a note for a 'standard' re-binding for flow controlled sites.
>I suspect this does come up quite a bit and will come up more so in the
>future.

I whole-heartedly agree about a standard.  Jove uses ^^ as a substitute
for ^Q, and ^\ for ^S.  I am now used to this, but I think it is a
mistake: ^S is a very useful function, but ^\ is hard on touch-typists
because it is on different places on different keyboards.  I have
suggested to jove-hackers that ^] be used in place of ^\, but the
response has been luke-warm.  I think that they, like RMS, consider
the problem to be with the terminals.