How To Unfreeze Vim

1 · Marc Päpper · April 18, 2019, 5:28 a.m.
Sometimes it happens that Vim freezes / gets stuck / doesn’t react and you might wonder what is going on. Recently, I figured out that this happens for me when I accidentally pressed Ctrl + S. It turns out that this is an old legacy features back from the slow days of computing where ressources were really scarce and you sometimes wanted to freeze the output of one program to help with your ressources....