vim running in tmux permanently freezes when I accidentally type C-x s

Question

I use emacs a lot, and type C-x s to save there. When I am in vim running inside tmux on a remote machine, if I accidentally type C-x s, the vim instance completely freezes up, and the only way out is to send tmux the kill-pane command.

How can I configure vim/tmux to block this from happening?

I've checked, it freezes vim in insert mode as well as command mode — tlehman, Sep 11 '18 at 18:07
are you typing control+s ? that can freeze terminals until control+q is pressed — thrig, Sep 11 '18 at 18:26

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '18 at 18:35

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@thrig answered my question, I can type C-q to get out of the frozen state I was in. Thank you!

answered Sep 11 '18 at 18:35

tlehman

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This is an interesting difference between VIM and NeoVIM. NeoVIM's raw mode turns off flow control special character processing in the line discipline. VIM's leaves it on. – JdeBP Sep 12 '18 at 01:19
I've been wondering how neovim is different than vim, thanks for sharing! – tlehman Sep 12 '18 at 02:16

vim running in tmux permanently freezes when I accidentally type C-x s

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