LYNX-DEV RE Lynx: "suspend" (^z) kills "G(oTo)", etc

[David Combs]

This applies mostly to those using lynx via "shell
account" on an ISP (eg netcom.com).

No separate process/windows concurrently "up" ON the ISP,
just ONE process at a time active.  Multiple things
ok via ^z, then "bg" can get (keep) them running
in background, while you do something else, eg read mail, etc.

Sometimes things in lynx (ie in the net) take a long
time to happen, eg G(oTo) command.  Instead of sitting
there waiting for something (likely just a time-out)
to happen, you'd like to do something else WHILE it
(lynx) was trying to get the net to respond.

But if you do a ^z (suspend), and immediately (as test)
fg-back-in, you find that lynx stopped (as if by "z")
trying as soon as you hit the ^z -- you see:

    unable to connect to remote host

sitting on the screen -- each time you try, no matter
how fast you hit ^z after doing the G.

I did egrep lynx.cfg and .lynxrc for the word "suspend", nothing
there.

Maybe it should be an option or something, to let ^z NOT kill the
current lynx-effort to connect to the net...

Just an idea
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