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Re: flow-control
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Michael Schroeder |
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Re: flow-control |
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Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:48:10 +0100 |
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:19:38AM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> OK, an often revisited subject, but it just struck me that it's not
> working as I thought it would. Why doesn't 'defflow off' disable
> flow-control in my terminals? For most of my windows created by a new
> screen (with a $SHELL in them), I get something like
>
> (1,79)/(132,79)+8192 -(-)flow -c1 UTF-8 1(zsh)
>
> in my info output, but for
>
> screen -t 'mua' 9 mutt -n
>
> I get
>
> (6,19)/(132,79)+8192 -(+)flow app -c1 UTF-8 9(mua)
Which is exactly right -(+) flow means that flow is currently off but
would be on in automatic mode.
> What gives? Without the 'defflow off' in my screenrc, I get -flow for
> most and +flow for the one with mutt in it.
>
> In mutt, flow-control will be enabled. In a terminal, [-(-)],
> flow-control is also still enabled, so the defflow off doesn't seem to
> have any real effect. Is this due to xterm? I thought I understood
> flow-control (finally), but it seems I don't.
Flow control is about who gets the ^S/^Q. If flow in on, screen will
handle it. If flow is off, the applications will. (Actually I'm
talking about the device drivers here, not programs.)
> Should I understand this as, even though screen passes on ^S, the shell
> will interpret ^S unless stty -ixon has been run
Not the shell but the devices driver, i.e. the PTY.
> and that in the case of
> mutt, there's really no chance for stty -ixon to be run?
If mutt doesn't set -ixon then there is apparently no need to get a
^S/^Q in it. Of course, if mutt then starts emacs, emacs will
set -ixon so that ^S will be received.
(So it is a bug in mutt if you have some keybinding to ^S and mutt
doesn't set -ixon... And it also won't work outside of screen.)
Cheers,
Michael.
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