Re: preventing switching to historical comments

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:56:15 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 08:15:40AM -0600, rbell--- via Lynx-dev wrote:
> 	I want to prevent any key from switching to historical
> comments.  What's the best way to do that?

"k" shows "'" (single-quote) bound to HISTORICAL

If you put this in your lynx.cfg, it'll eliminate that:

	KEYMAP:':UNMAPPED

(but preventing "any key" likely requires changing the C code -- you
should be able to verify that by inspection)

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