Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqrkl From: sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: What a joke Emacs is (CTRL-Q/S controversy) Message-ID: <3918@csvax.liv.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jul 88 10:10:32 GMT References: <3601@csvax.liv.ac.uk> <23571@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Lines: 24 Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University In article <23571@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: > > How fast does it (Maculator) go WITHOUT xon/xoff? Emacs uses ^S for > "incremental search", and ^Q for "quote" (to allow you to insert control > chars into your buffer). > I find it amazing that an editor (does Emacs deserve such an accolade ?) in these so-called modern times actually uses CTRL-Q and CTRL-S as commands. This has me dumbfounded (for a change !) and it serves anyone right who uses Emacs. All minis/mainframes I know of (no doubt there are exceptions) support XON/XOFF as a matter of course and you WOULD be foolish to run a terminal emulator at high speeds without XON/XOFF active. Richard K. Lloyd, ****** This is a VAX 11/780 running VAX/VMS V4.5 ****** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : SQRKL@UK.AC.LIV.CSVAX * Liverpool University, * UUCP : {backbone}!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!SQRKL * Merseyside, England, * Internet : SQRKL%csvax.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * Great Britain. ******************************************************* "My opinions and those of the University of Liverpool are completely unrelated, so I'M THE CULPRIT if you feel offended by the above message - I just can't help moaning about Atari STs, PCs or clones, U**X, C, IBM mainframes, the list is endless..."