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Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful
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David H |
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Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful |
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:28:47 -0600 (CST) |
Henry wrote:
>However, as I count the Ctrl-[a-z] being used, there seem to be a few left.
>
>Would any of ^W, ^Y, ^I or ^M be bad? Could ^, be used?
^I is <tab>. That's taken for NEXT_LINK (or the new NEXT_LINK variant).
^M is <enter> or <return>. That's taken for ACTIVATE.
^Y is a variation on ^Z in Unix systems. ^Z suspends immediately, but
^Y waits until there are no more characters in the input buffer. (In
other words, if you've pressed keys that haven't been acted on yet and
you press ^Z, your extra keystrokes will be discarded. If you press ^Y,
though, the OS will wait for all pending keystrokes to be at least read.)
^W is a delete-word^Wredraw-screen command in Lynx. I've never seen it
used as this in any other application, and ^L is always available, so I'd
say ^W is available. (Personally, I prefer ^W to do the Unix-thing of
delete-previous-word, which is by default mapped to ^B, but maybe that's
just me.)
^^ (or ^6) is not, so far as I know, reserved as an stty signal, so it
might be available. However, pressing ^^ is somewhat unexpected, so if
it's used, it should be for some advanced thing.
[Hmm... Lynx 2.8.2dev16 doesn't seem to send my preferred E-mail address
with mail messages; it's sending "address@hidden" instead of
"address@hidden" as it's configured. 2.7.1 on the same machine *does*
send the correct "From:" line. Was this an intentional change?]
David Henderson
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- Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful, Henry Nelson, 1999/02/15
- Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful, Klaus Weide, 1999/02/16
- lynx-dev keystrokes available, David H, 1999/02/16
- lynx-dev Re: keystrokes available, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/02/16
- lynx-dev Re: keystrokes available, davidh, 1999/02/16
- Re: lynx-dev Re: keystrokes available, Bela Lubkin, 1999/02/16
Re: lynx-dev ^Ve considered harmful, Henry Nelson, 1999/02/15