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If you have an SSH session that's hanging

It's usually because I've accidentally fumbled ctrl-s which means 'play dead'. Why that's important enough to take a two-key home row shortcut, I don't know. The cure is to press ctrl-q. Same wonder about the cure.

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I can't argue for it taking such a prime spot on the keyboard, but I used c-s/c-q every day to freeze scrolling output that I want to look at. Your terminal scrollback will still work during the pause.

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