Re: lynx-dev peculiar behavior

[T.E.Dickey]

> At this moment, I am on a Mac 68k machine, running MacOS 7.5.1, and using 
> NCSA Telnet.  I am telnetted to an Ultra SPARC running Solaris 2.6.  I  
> am running screen.  Within screen, I start up lynx 2.8.3dev.3 (compiled 
> with all sorts of options, including ncurses 5.0 beta). 
> I go to a form with an input textarea.  I press the sequence to go 
> into my editor, which is nvi 1.79. 

Perhaps the ^Z stuff Klaus pointed out in January still isn't quite right.
That was a fix against ncurses.

(But we've made no changes since then that should have altered the behavior
afaik).
  
> I understand that no one in their right mind is going to have my setup. 

well, I can see it doing this - lynx+ncurses+vile on Solaris 2.6 (I'll poke
at it and see if I can isolate the cause)
  
> However, if anyout there is using lynx and even vi, could you try to 
> go into some form, type your 'use an editor to write this input ' lynx 
> action key, then do a control z to drop your editor into the background. 
> Then do a fg to bring it back into the foreground and see what you see 
> happening. 
> generate  
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