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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: catch ^C's --> "are you sure?" (excellent!)
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Thomas E. Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: catch ^C's --> "are you sure?" (excellent!) |
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, David Combs wrote:
> Drat!
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> Mistakenly hit ^C!
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> After having been browsing for over an hour!
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> All that history, V-page tree, gone!
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> Couldn't lynx *catch* control-c, then via a very simple,
> and very local special-purpose code ask "are you sure?" --
> just as is now done for "q(uit)".
not exactly - since control/C would be caught by a signal handler,
it would still interrupt whatever you're doing. And the signal handler
couldn't do anything useful for prompting you.
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> Anyway, add it to the wish list.
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> (Oh, anyone besides me who would find it useful?)
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> Thanks,
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> David
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