It is *not* "Vim's Ctrl-S"; it's the terminal emulator's ctrl-s. Same thing happ... | Hacker News

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		6502nerdface on July 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input It is not "Vim's Ctrl-S"; it's the terminal emulator's ctrl-s. Same thing happens in less, for example.

PhasmaFelis on July 16, 2015 [–]

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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