Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx-2.8-pre5 Options wish: not use ^A for Assume char set

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, APIS wrote:

>       o I use the screen package when I am on portable via modem
> to InterNet or even on the Sun dtterm when wanting to get rid of all the
> <<eye-candy>> and get some work done quickly -- Lynx is much faster
> and friendly.  Thanks to Fote, Klaus et al for keeping it alive and well!
>       
>       o Wish: I wonder if ^A and such control-chars could be avoided in
> (O)ptions as I need the control characters to be used by screen or other
> pkgs, and I cannot use (^A)ssume, as screen needs ^A to switch to
> the screen functions.
> 
> Solution:
>       pR)e-sume char set if unknown:

Instead, you could just remember that ^A is special to screen, and type
^Aa (which sends a literal ^A).