Disabling start and stop keys

[Christopher Zimmermann]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 11:11:33PM -0000, Jeffery Small wrote:
>I have a script that fires up mutt in an xfce4-terminal window.  In my ksh
>shell .kshrc file, I use stty to disable (undef) the stop (^S) and start
>(^Q) characters.  However, when I run mutt as follows:
>
>xfce4-terminal <various options> -e /usr/local/bin/mutt &
>
>I find that the stop/start characters remain active.  I have tried adding
>multiple -e options to xfce4-terminal to disable the chars before running
>mutt, but with no luck.
>
>Is there some method to disable these keys in .muttrc which is processed
>inside the running terminal?  I've looked for a something that will execute
>a command in the current shell (rather than a sub-shell) but see nothing.
>
>I'm guessing that this is a simple problem, and I'm missing the forest
>for the trees.

There is no option in .muttrc, but here's what I do for st:

st -t mutt -e sh -c 'stty dsusp undef ; exec mutt'


Christopher