Here I am writing in Vim and my terminal freezes. Like many people I’m at least partially programmed to press Ctrl + S to save a file. Seems in Pantheon (and many other terminal applications) this actually stops the screen output of the terminal.

So there you sit looking at a terminal with nothing responding. You thought you were saving…but nope.

Turns out there is an eazy fix. Press Ctrl + Q and you’re good to go. The terminal session will start working again and you’re off to the races.