I frequently issue a Ctrl-R to reload web pages and once in a while I miss the R key and hit the "4" key -- just above the "E" and "R" keys on a US keyboard.
What happens is that: 1. I still see the original web page but it is overwritten by a shell prompt -- about 20% down the page. As far as I can tell, in this instance, "CTRL-4" is equivalent to some form of SIGKILL, terminating the ELinks process and bypassing the "Do you really want to exit ELinks" popup screen. 2. The shell session I end up in is frozen and does not accept a refresh screen command (Ctrl-L). 3. If I hit <Enter> after hitting Ctrl-L the screen is cleared but hitting <Enter> again displays a second prompt on the same line as the first one .. etc. ad Nauseam Aeternam .. 4. If I try to use this shell session and issue commands such as "ls" .. "top" .. etc. they behave normally after I hit enter but the commands that I type are no longer echoed back to the terminal. 5. I need to issue a blind "reset" command to get the terminal to work normally again. Has anyone seen this? Is there any way I could deactivate this annoying "Ctrl-4" key combo? I have checked the "Keybinding manager" and the screen configuration file but I haven't found anything. Also it only seems to affect ELinks: I checked a few other ncurses applications as well as a bare bash shell and when I hit Ctrl-4 nothing happened. Well.. hopefully someone will have run into this and knows the whys and the wherefores of this peculiar phenomenon and perhaps have found a workaround .. I would much appreciate any pointers in the right direction since it always happens under the worse circumstances and it's both a time waster and source of aggravation to lose a session with a dozen tabs open right when you're in the middle of something. :-) Thanks cga _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
