Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "Append to local file": default file-name needed!

[Heather Stern]

I ate the fortune cookie first, then read what T.E.Dickey wrote:
> 
>>> I get the actual filename by using the uparrow to scroll back in the 
>>> history. (It would be nice to append to an existing filename though) 
>>  
>> Sure doesn't work for me, hitting uparrow at that prompt: 
> then something's broken (it works for me in the release and development
> versions -- I see a prompt to "Edit the previous filename").
> ...
>    
>> Printing file.  Please wait...Append to filename: ^[[A^[[A^[[A 

I have found that if it's related to your TERM variable (and thereby
terminal control) being set wrong, on my systems with job control, I stall
lynx with ^Z, correct the TERM variable and issue "reset", then reawaken
lynx.

(known working on: Linux revs RedHat 4.2 & SuSE 5.x)

Hope that helps;  if it does, either fix your login script to set your
TERM more intelligently, or to give you a personal motd reminding you to 
set it.  If you only use lynx from one station, but typically login from
several different termtypes, make a script or alias to wrap around your
lynx run that sets the TERM for that session only.

For awhile I had a problem with other programs that were sometimes mangling
my terminal behavior; I was pleasantly surprised when lynx honored my reset
(I had expect to find myself "blind" or have to kill it, but I habitually
close down apps in the most normal method left to them.)  You might have to
force a redraw, but maybe not, especially as following a link will redraw
anyway.

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