lynx-dev Re: ^Ve Bug

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Tue, Feb 09, 1999, By-Tor (address@hidden) said:
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| Bug: Ctrl-V e does absolutely nothing when entering text into a text area.

Nothing?  No statusline msg?  Nada?

Sounds like the ^V is getting eaten up by your shell.  Outside of a
TEXTAREA, does ^V switch you between SortaSGML and TagSoup parsing
modes?  If it isn't doing that, you may need to stty your terminal
to not recognize ^V as a "quoting char" as it is sometimes used in
some systems/shells (it *may* be a shell setting, rather than stty
that controls that behavior ... I don't recall offhand).

Other than that, I presume that you do have an editor defined, and
that you're not running -anonymous, or with -restrictions=editor,
or some such.

If you still have problems, turn trace on (^T) just before entering
the TEXTAREA, hit ^Ve, and post the first ~25 lines or so of the
trace, and we'll see if you're getting to the edit-calling routine
at all.


Wasn't someone else having trouble using ^V a couple weeks ago, and
if my memory isn't failing me, how did you resolve the problem ...?

/kim