Re: lynx-dev Control characters in news (was Re: Posted message has no text error message)

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 01:41:56PM -0800, Michael Warner wrote: 
> > or underlining.  The "control-L" is rendered as "^L", but has no 
> > effect. 
> >  
>  
> Thank god for that! 
>  
> SOME editors treat control-L as a "page mark", auto-splitting the 
> line (and "page") at that point. 
>  
> If this "no effect" action is ever changed, PLEASE make it an OPTION 
> (defaulted OFF)! 

control-L would in any case be rendered as ^L with curses (no guarantees
for slang, of course ;-)
  
> David 

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