Re: [Nano-devel] Disabling ^S for scroll lock.

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:33:48PM -0400, David Benbennick wrote:
> I think Nano should turn off scroll lock.  Consider Joe User, typing away,
> does a ^A or ^W or ^D or ^Z or ^X but misses and doesn't notice.  Then
> Nano is frozen!  Bug report...
> 
> Back when I used Pico, I had to kill it five or so times before I 
> discovered that ^Q would unfreeze it.
> 
> Anyway, if you don't want to just ignore ^S, at the very least we should 
> put up a message, "Use ^Q to unfreeze me."

I generally agree with this. I don't know a good reason to keep the
"normal" behaviour inside nano, and surely it can trap newbies easily.
^A is quite near.

The only input I got from IRC was...
[23:46] > Are there good reasons to keep nano doing SIGSTOP when you press ^S?
[23:46] <weasel> it wants you do use vim?
[23:47] > weasel: heh, I count that as a reason to disable it :)
[23:48] <weasel> [fwiw, I like if ^S actually stops. It's A Good Thing]
[23:48] > weasel: for what?
[23:48] <ifvoid> weasel: me too
[23:48] > weasel: for what, inside an editor like nano?
[23:48] <ifvoid> not sure if it's useful in nano, though
[23:49] <weasel> Oskuro_: I can think of no good reason why I would use it in
        an editor, just in general
[23:48] <weasel> [fwiw, I like if ^S actually stops. It's A Good Thing]
[23:48] > weasel: for what?
[23:48] <ifvoid> weasel: me too
[23:48] > weasel: for what, inside an editor like nano?
[23:48] <ifvoid> not sure if it's useful in nano, though
[23:49] <weasel> Oskuro_: I can think of no good reason why I would use it in
        an editor, just in general

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