Re: [groff] 04/05: {g, n}roff.1.man: Give assistance to pager users.

[James K. Lowden]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 07:08:44 +1000
John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:

> Really? That's interesting. What did <ctrl-s> do? On the terminal
> emulators I have on hand at the moment, none of them are responding
> or behaving differently.

Same thing it still does do, because outside of the GUI all we do is
emulate 1970s hardware.  

^Q/^S is xon/xoff.  Besides being keys you can type to control terminal
scrolling, it was typically supported by printers so the computer
didn't overrun the printer's buffer.  

--jkl