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    I was working in vim and I pressed Ctrl-S to save my edits. Uh-oh XD Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 14:47
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    Why does that exist in first place? Commented Dec 13, 2018 at 23:31
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    This sometimes happens to me: accidentally freezing Vim, in a xfce4-terminal (it's actually the terminal that is frozen). Various xon-xoff solutions (Ctrl-Q ...) had no effect. Although no keyboard shortcut was evident, I noticed that from the terminal menu that the terminal had become set to "Read-Only." Unchecking that restored terminal responsiveness. Commented Sep 29, 2020 at 21:33
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    Thank you @VictoriaStuart - this has been driving me insane. Now I just need to figure out the keystroke that causes the RO mode... Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 13:45
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    @Ryan that's to break SSH sesion. Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 17:16