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Re: lynx-dev Re: how do I _use_ the EDITTEXTAREA?
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Michael Warner |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: how do I _use_ the EDITTEXTAREA? |
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Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:27:56 -0800 |
On 30 Jan 99, %[23:2, Serge Munhoven <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:08:38PM -0800, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 1999, Larry W. Virden (address@hidden) said:
> > |
> > | > and nothing happens - the trace log shows no traces.
> > | Interestingly enough, within probably 10 minutes of sending this msg I
> > | figured out what I needed - I needed a ^V^VE to get things to work. I
> > | didn't think earlier about the vact that the ^V is, to unix, a quoting
> > | character and so what I was getting was Unix treating E as a literal...
> >
> > Heh. Not quite a "unixism" though ... more of a "shellism". FWIW, when
> > I'm talking directly to my shell's cmd line (tcsh), ^V does indeed act
> > like a quote for the next char, BUT when I'm in lynx (or any other
> > application, that behavior goes away, and a ^V is just a ^V). Mayhaps
> > it's a termcap/terminfo/termsomething related artifact.
> >
> Probably. I can confirm Larry's report from before the textarea edit
> capability. Switching the parsing mode always required a double ^V for me.
> (2.8.1pre.9 (shame on me ..., but no time yet), under Digital UNIX, with
> native
> curses). Was on my investigations list.
Just as a data point, Digital UNIX 4.0 w/ SLang has always
worked with a single ^V, for me (through dev13, building
current version tonight).
And as an aside, at least one application uses ^V as a quote
char - in vim it's used to insert a literal control
character.
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Michael Warner "You're cute when you're stupid"
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