<ctrl>-s on Unix boxes means "stop the output" - the machine hasn't
hung, it's just not printing anything. Press <ctrl>-q to restart the
output.
I don't know how to stop this from happening.
Ian.
> 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?
>
> 2. How do I stop it happening, or at least how do I recover from this
> "dead state" once I've got there?
>
> I'm using ordinary ved (not xved) in a pretty much standard
Birmingham Uni
> Poplog setup.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Dave
>
> --
> Dave Gurnell
> d.j.gurnell@cs.bham.ac.uk
>
>
>
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