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Re: Making ctrl-S send some funny escape sequence

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From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1986 15:33
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> From: Israel Pinkas <ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!pinkas@cad.berkeley.edu>

> This is a portion of my .emacs file:

> (global-set-key "\C-^" 'isearch-forward)
> (global-set-key "\C-\\" 'quoted-insert)

...etc

You miss the point: if the diehard ^S lovers were willing to MOVE
search, then this religious war would have ceased being a problem
YEARS ago: ^S would have long since been back in the realm of
terminal-control-chars.  The whole point of the
I-can't-live-without-search-on-^S crowd is that they WANT SEARCH ON
^S... 

now, someone suggested that one might be able to have his cake
and eat it, too, by letting the ^S/^Q stuff stay hidden in the terminal
control protocol and 'fixing' your terminal to send something else
when you hold-down-the-CTRL-key-and-hit-S.  I was only pointing out
that as far as I've been able to puzzle out, even THAT doesn't work,
because you still can't get the "research-forward" control to use your
new sequence.

  /Bernie
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Subject: Re:  Making ctrl-S send some funny escape sequence
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