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		MereInterest on July 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input 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.

nitrogen on July 15, 2015 [–]

I use it to pause output from a running batch job (e.g. deployment).

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