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Date:Mon Jan 10 14:05:06 2003 
Subject:Re: pop-forum: Ved and CTRL+S 
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Volume-ID:1030110.04 

In article <avmja1$6is$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
	D.J.Gurnell@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:
> Peeps,
> 
> A quick Ved question from a child of the Windows look and feel.
> 
> While I normally manage to hit "ENTER w1" to save a file, from time to
> time my subconscious gets the better of me and I hit "CTRL+S". This seems
> to have the unfortunate effect of either crashing Ved, or at least putting
> it into a state from which I don't know how to recover.
> 
> I looked at "HELP VEDKEYS" for guidance and it says that "CTRL+S" is a
> shortcut that is normally used by the operating system and that Ved
> doesn't handle it. These two questions spring to mind:
> 
> 1. What the heck is going on?

CTRL+S is a way of saying "stop sending me data! I can't handle it!!
stop, stop, stop!!!" as a flow-control mechanism.

> 2. How do I stop it happening, or at least how do I recover from this
>    "dead state" once I've got there?

CTRL+Q is "I've had a rest and a cuppa and I can cope again". Assuming,
of course, that your local environment hasn't rebound it.

> I'm using ordinary ved (not xved) in a pretty much standard Birmingham Uni
> Poplog setup.

I checked that it worked; be warned when you CTRL+Q all the stuff you
typed into the void (and got held up by the other half of the CTRL+Q)
will reappear. 

-- 
Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin
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