Jove 4.9 tty mode on SCO Xenix

Paul Fink fink at RX/V.physics.orst.edu
Fri Nov 11 17:51:03 AEST 1988


In article <186 at libove.UUCP> root at libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>
>I have Jove 4.9 running on my SCO Xenix 2.2.1 system (80286 version) and I
>notice that unlike vi and microemacs, ctrl-S and ctrl-Q actually do stop and
>restart tty output. Since I'm running on the console, I should be able to
>override this and actually use those keys.
>
>I tried setting the "allow-^S-and-^Q" variable to "on" but that doesn't
>change anything. Was there something I should have done at compile 

I'm afraid you have it backwards. If you don't want to use ^S as emacs command
say "set allow-^S-and-^Q" variable off".
Then you can use '\' instead of ^S. You may also bind search and save to
anything you want. See the manual page "man jove" for more information.
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