Re: LYNX-DEV Feature request: -book=<letter>

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, William Denton wrote:

> A feature request:
> 
> Would it be possible to adjust the -book option to accept a value?
> E.g., lynx -book=a.  With multiple bookmarks, if you start up with
> lynx -book, you wait a second for lynx to get going, then it asks
> which bookmark you want.  In the interests of being able to specify as
> much as possible on the command line, then being able to go off to
> some other window and have everything waiting for you when you come
> back, it'd be nice to be able to say -book=<letter>.
> 
> I suppose it could work like this: if multiple bookmarks are on,
> -book=a takes you to bookmark page A, and -book asks you the way it
> does now.  If multiple bookmarks are off, -book=a could flash by a
> warning before showing the one bookmark page, and -book would be what
> you expect.

This was discussed when multibookmark support was first added into the
official code, and my understanding of it was that due to the way lynx
parses the command line options, adding this feature would either make
-book by itself no longer function (or function unreliably) even when
multibookmark support was off.

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