Comment 1 for bug 80635

I second the motion. I, personally, like flow-control, and would want it on; but I remember well back in my earlier days, /apparently/ screwing up my terminl with a simple Ctrl-S (which I usually wouldn't even know I'd typed: it'd be accidental), and trying everything I could think of (except, apparently, Ctrl-Q).

However, this has nothing to do with coreutils (stty can't set what the /defaults/ were before it was called). And having all new terminals have ixon turned off would be the wrong approach. Probably the best thing to do would be to add an explicit stty call in users' .bashrc's; I recommend adding a line "stty -ixon" in /skel/.bashrc.