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

[Chris Allegretta]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:55:08PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 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.

Fine, it's in there.  DLR, I apologize (again), if I'm breaking your patches 
(again).  Commit at your leisure.

Chris A
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