;;; flow-ctrl.el --- help for lusers on cu(1) or ttys with wired-in ^S/^Q flow control ;; Author Kevin Gallagher ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Last-Modified: 03 Jun 1992 ;; Adapted-By: ESR ;; Keywords: hardware ;;; Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;; Copyright (C) 1991 Kevin Gallagher ;;; ;;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts ;;; RESPONSIBILITY TO anyone for the consequences of using it or for ;;; whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless ;;; he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public ;;; License for full details. ;;; ;;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute ;;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the GNU ;;; Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed ;;; to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you can know ;;; your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file named ;;; COPYING. Among other things, the Copyright notice and this notice ;;; must be preserved on all copies. ;;; Commentary: ;;;; Terminals that use XON/XOFF flow control can cause problems with ;;;; GNU Emacs users. This file contains Emacs Lisp code that makes it ;;;; easy for a user to deal with this problem, when using such a ;;;; terminal. ;;;; ;;;; To invoke these adjustments, a user need only invoke the function ;;;; evade-flow-control-on with a list of terminal types in his/her own ;;;; .emacs file. As arguments, give it the names of one or more terminal ;;;; types in use by that user which require flow control adjustments. ;;;; Here's an example: ;;;; ;;;; (evade-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") ;;; Portability note: This uses (getenv "TERM"), and therefore probably ;;; won't work outside of UNIX-like environments. ;;; Code: (defun evade-flow-control () "Enable use of flow control; let user type C-s as C-\ and C-q as C-^." (interactive) ;; Tell emacs to pass C-s and C-q to OS. (set-input-mode nil t) ;; Initialize translate table, saving previous mappings, if any. (let ((the-table (make-string 128 0))) (let ((i 0) (j (length keyboard-translate-table))) (while (< i j) (aset the-table i (elt keyboard-translate-table i)) (setq i (1+ i))) (while (< i 128) (aset the-table i i) (setq i (1+ i)))) (setq keyboard-translate-table the-table)) ;; Swap C-s and C-\ (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\034 ?\^s) (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\^s ?\034) ;; Swap C-q and C-^ (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\036 ?\^q) (aset keyboard-translate-table ?\^q ?\036) (message (concat "XON/XOFF adjustment for " (getenv "TERM") ": use C-\\ for C-s and use C-^ for C-q.")) (sleep-for 2)) ; Give user a chance to see message. (defun evade-flow-control-memstr= (e s) (cond ((null s) nil) ((string= e (car s)) t) (t (evade-flow-control-memstr= e (cdr s))))) ;;;###autoload (defun evade-flow-control-on (&rest losing-terminal-types) "Enable flow control if using one of a specified set of terminal types. Use `(evade-flow-control-on \"vt100\" \"h19\")' to enable flow control on VT-100 and H19 terminals. When flow control is enabled, you must type C-\\ to get the effect of a C-s, and type C-^ to get the effect of a C-q." (let ((term (getenv "TERM")) hyphend) ;; Strip off hyphen and what follows (while (setq hyphend (string-match "[-_][^-_]+$" term)) (setq term (substring term 0 hyphend))) (and (evade-flow-control-memstr= term losing-terminal-types) (evade-flow-control))) ) (provide 'flow-ctrl) ;;; flow-ctrl.el ends here