ghoti@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU (11/21/88)
I was using GNU emacs to edit a file. When I wanted to save what I had done before doing more, I typed ^x^s . Normally, the command is echoed to the screen and then a message appears about what happened. Instead, my terminal stopped responding to my keystrokes and nothing was echoed to the screen. Eventually, I figured out that for some reason the system I was using was interpreting the ^s as the command to stop the printing of output to the screen and not as part of the save command. I log into the machine via a modem by dialing up FASNET at Harvard and it does interpret ^s as a command to suppress output. I would think that GNU emacs would be able to override this, but apparently it can't. Another possiblity would be to define a command to replace ^x^s but I don't know how to define my own commands in emacs and in any case I don't know what is involved in revising the command for ^x^s. Any suggestions ? Allan Adler ghoti@cauchy.mit.edu