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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: catch ^C's --> "are you sure?" (excellent!)


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: catch ^C's --> "are you sure?" (excellent!)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, David Combs wrote:

> Drat!
>
> Mistakenly hit ^C!
>
> After having been browsing for over an hour!
>
> All that history, V-page tree, gone!
>
> Couldn't lynx *catch* control-c, then via a very simple,
> and very local special-purpose code ask "are you sure?" --
> just as is now done for "q(uit)".

not exactly - since control/C would be caught by a signal handler,
it would still interrupt whatever you're doing.  And the signal handler
couldn't do anything useful for prompting you.

>
> Anyway, add it to the wish list.
>
> (Oh, anyone besides me who would find it useful?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
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