Very Computer

From the man page:
      Enter copy/scrollback mode. This allows you to  copy  text
       from  the  current  window  and its history into the paste
       buffer. In this mode a vi-like  `full  screen  editor'  is
       active:
       Movement keys:
         h,  j,  k,  l  move the cursor line by line or column by
           column.
         0, ^ and $ move to the leftmost column, to the first  or
           last non-whitespace character on the line.
         H, M and L move the cursor to the leftmost column of the
           top, center or bottom line of the window.
         + and - positions one line up and down.
         G moves to the specified absolute line (default: end  of
           buffer).
         | moves to the specified absolute column.
         w, b, e move the cursor word by word.
         C-u  and C-d scroll the display up/down by the specified
           amount of lines while preserving the cursor  position.
           (Default: half screen-full).
         C-b and C-f scroll the display up/down a full screen.
         g moves to the beginning of the buffer.
         % jumps to the specified percentage of the buffer.

So you could cat a file to the screen, C-a [, C-b as many times as
necessary, space-bar, G to go to bottom of the screen, position as
necessary, and voila.

You may also look at the readbuf command (C-a <).  Do something like
cp file /tmp/screen-exchange
C-a <
C-a ]

I assume you're using a recent enough version of lynx that supports
automatic growing of textfields.  Also, recent enough version of lynx
supports spawning an external editor for a textfield, and then you could
just use the editor the read in the file into the buffer.

mrc
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Quote:> page mentions how to paste the whole buffer, which I take to mean a
> whole file, but I haven't had success getting that to work. I either

                   C-a : bufferfile /etc/passwd
                   C-a < C-a ]
                   C-a : bufferfile

I managed to paste a 32k file into `cat >foo' that way, so it seems to
work (though screen's display got a bit confused, the file was ok).
But when pasting into lynx *be careful* not to post too many lines, or
it'll get horribly confused, treating the extraneous text as commands.
This may seem obvious, but it caught me out when I tested it. :-)

-Rus.