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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by MereInterest on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:24PM (#9894653)
If you run "stty -ixon", it will prevent Ctrl-S from pausing the terminal. I understand that feature in the days of slow connections, but it feels rather silly at this point.
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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by nitrogen on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:40PM (#9894719)
I use it to pause output from a running batch job (e.g. deployment).
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