Disabling start and stop keys

[Derek Martin]

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:

I don't have ksh installed to test (and I'm too lazy to install it),
but I suspect your .kshrc file is not being read because the shell
that xfce4-terminal launches to run mutt is not an interactive shell.
But the question is, if you're doing this via a script to begin with,
why rely on .kshrc?  Run stty in the script before starting mutt...
or better yet, make the thing that xfce4-terminal starts be the shell
script that starts mutt, and consists of this:

#!/bin/sh
stty start undef
stty stop undef
exec /usr/local/bin/mutt

Call that script, say, /foo/bin/mutt, and then start with

xfce4-terminal $options -e /foo/bin/mutt

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