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Conversely: I use ^S and ^Q _all the time_. I've got a long-running program that's spewing output to a terminal? ^S and it stops so I can look at it, copy output elsewhere, etc. ^Q and it resumes again seamlessly.

It occurs to me that I grew up on the BBC Micro, where pressing Ctrl+Shift would pausing scrolling, so being able to do this is tightly engrained in muscle memory...

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Fair enough, though I tend to just use tee and/or tmux for things like that. Just turn logging on if I'm curious and let things continue on their merry way.

Only time i've ever used it was when booting a system to stop output on a serial console. That was years ago and a one off basically.

In tmux ^b-] defaults to xoff too

This is why i have my ^b mapped to ^\ actually. :)

> Conversely: I use ^S and ^Q _all the time_. I've got a long-running program that's spewing output to a terminal? ^S and it stops so I can look at it, copy output elsewhere, etc. ^Q and it resumes again seamlessly.

Why not ^Z and `fg`? (I'm sure that there's a subtle or not-so-subtle difference, but I've only ever suspended, never XOFF'd, so I don't know it.)

^Z suspends the current application and returns to the program that ran it (typically the shell), which will then print a prompt. ^S and ^Q leave the output entirely undisturbed and unbroken.

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