[beachstartup]

i'm turning 30 this year, have been dealing with this issue for 15 years, and still mini-panic for about 2 seconds whenever i hit ctrl-s by accident. it's good to read about.

chill out man.

[eterm]

Being a windows developer who dabbles in linux I accidentally smack ctrl+s a dozen times a day when vimming. I've only just recently got used to to recovery mechanism: Ctrl+q to recover the terminal, a stiff drink to recover my nerves.

[voltagex_]

From a comment above, I think you'll be able to put stty -ixon -ixoff in your .profile (or .bashrc or whatever) and ctrl+s/q won't be a problem anymore.

[eli]

I think the implication was that there was a time when one frequently wanted to mess with the flow control.

[nkurz]

WELL HOW ESL&^H^HLSE ARE YOU GOING TO READ A 25+ LINE FILE OTHER THAN MASHING CTRLQ BEFORE THE LINES SCROLL OFF THE SCREEN? BY READING THRE AFTERGLOW? I SUPPOSE YOU`VE ASL^H^HSLO GOT A DIRECT CONNECT MODEMS WHERE YOU CAN`T EVEN HEAR WHAT`S GOING ON. +++ATH...

[beachstartup]

i used to use it all the time on dialup connections. these days it's largely just a pain in the ass.