• Infinite down arrow key input at auto-pause prompt just before form-fe

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Fri Dec 27 19:48:11 2024
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/851

    When displaying a file (e.g. with JS console.printfile()) that contains a form-feed (Ctrl-L) character, the auto-pause prompt that will appear doesn't handle down-arrow very well and just loops forever until a non-down-arrow key is pressed (or the user disconnects).

    Looking at the git blame, it appears this problem has been there as long as the pause prompt has accepted down-arrow (Ctrl-J) as a special input character (to display just one more line) - so, a very long time.
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    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)