Re: LYNX-DEV Enhancement request: make ^C act like 'z'

[Peter J. Weyers]

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> 
> Enhancement request: Make ^C behave like 'z' and/or make z actually stop
> everything.  (I think there was some discussion about this recently..
> I know in actual use z doesn't stop everything.  I don't think it stops the
> "looking up" part, which sometimes takes forever.)
> 
> So I impatiently type ^C..  which barfs out of Lynx.  At least it could
> just go back to my start page or something..

This is not a problem of lynx, but your Terminal converts ^C to a
break/terminate signal. As long as stty knows your termianl you can avoid
this by 

stty -isig;lynx;stty +isig

Hope it helps,

Peter
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