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Re: LYNX-DEV Enhancement request: make ^C act like 'z'
From: |
Peter J. Weyers |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Enhancement request: make ^C act like 'z' |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:04:30 +0100 (MET) |
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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