A fine answer, but my life experience is that it's not just "muscle memory," I am showing that xon and xoff still work inside both Terminal.app and iTerm2 (echo

A fine answer, but my life experience is that it's not just "muscle memory," I am showing that xon and xoff still work inside both Terminal.app and iTerm2 (echo $TERM shows "xterm-256color") so maybe there's some legacy stuff configured in them or something, but I'm just saying that I struggle to think of who the audience is that would be running micro but not via a virtual terminal library that implements flow control