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From: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
Message-ID: <217@astra.necisa.oz>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 03:42:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: astra.217
Posted: Wed Jun 24 03:42:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 02:35:31 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia
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Summary: Is EMACS brain-damaged, then?
Xref: mnetor comp.sources.d:897 comp.emacs:1257

It occurs to me that if EMACS uses ^S (a character universally accepted
to mean STOP SENDING ME CHARACTERS!) as a command, then perhaps EMACS
is just ever so slightly brain damaged.  Why shouldn't the terminal
(or the user for that matter) send ^S if it wants to?  What do you
think the NO-SCROLL key does?

Yes - I have heard of hardware handshaking.  I've also seen far too
many combinations of pins for my liking.  Besides, hardware handshake
over a modem line is not the best.

Why did EMACS choose to redefine ^S anyway?
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