Disabling terminal freezes because of scroll lock (XOFF)

[eliasdorneles]

What about disabling scroll lock (XOFF), to avoid people puzzling why the screen is frozen, having to find out about Ctrl-S and scroll lock and hitting Ctrl-Q to "unfreeze"?

I've been using this for years in my bashrc, but I don't know how portable it is:

# disable terminal locking
bind -r '\C-s'
stty -ixon

[chocolateboy]

I've been using this for years in my bashrc

Same here, though it has always worked for me without the bind.