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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by 6502nerdface on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @09:00PM (#9895006)
It is not "Vim's Ctrl-S"; it's the terminal emulator's ctrl-s. Same thing happens in less, for example.
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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by PhasmaFelis on Thursday July 16, 2015 @05:54PM (#9900112)
Ah, my mistake. Same criticism applies, though; possibly more so, as a terminal emulator running within a GUI would find it even easier to display a useful status message or similar.
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