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Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions


From: Laura Eaves
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:42:39 -0500 (EST)

>       Your suggestion is contrary to the logic of the current Lynx API,
> and meaning of a back command.  Lynx keeps track of the HText line number
> positioned at the top of the currently displayed page, and the display_page()
> function orders hypertext links and form fields *within* the displayed page,
> relative to that line.  The HYpertext links and form fields associated with
> HText structures are kept in separate structures, and coordinated
> independently in conjunction with individual page displays.
> 
>       When you enter a back command, that means retrieve the HText
> structure for the previous document, construct a page display beginning at
> that saved line number, and position the cursor on the saved *relative* link
> number or form fieild within that display.  If you left that document by
> entering an *absolute* link number, that's equivalent to having left by
> entering a 'g'oto URL or 'j'ump shortcut.  Lynx has no way to relate it
> back to its page display procedures, nor does it have a way to treat
> hypertext links and form fields as a single ordinal continuum.  It's
> another one of those cases in which what users imagine Lynx is doing while
> using Lynx in fact is not as all what Lynx is doing.  Sorry...
> 
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I know lynx doesn't change the current link or page info when you type a
link number.  From what you say, it's implemented like a goto.

When you move the current link with the arrow keys and scroll off the page
the page info changes.  The page and current link are also repositioned when
you do a search command.  Would it be that hard to reposition things when you
type a link number?
I don't think that changes the meaning of the back command -- just the def
of what happens when you type a link number.

If the current implementation makes this a lot of work that's another matter
and I understand..
Just wondering.
--le
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