LYNX-DEV recalling URLs

[Philip Webb]

970404 Jude DaShiell wrote: 
> Would it be possible for lynx in some future version to add an urrl

-- you mean  URL  --

> from the (g) command once a user types in that urrl and a failed connection
> to that urrl has occurred?  This should only be possible
> if a lookup of the urrl has produced a valid ip number though.

you can already do this in  2  ways:
  (1) if you're using Lynx 2-7 (the latest version), you can recall URLs
  while at the  g  command line using the up/down-arrow keys:
  previously entered URLs are stored in a loop;
  you can also edit the command line.
  (2) also in 2-7, there's a new command  V  (capital),
  which gives you a list of all links previously visited in that session:
  it's different from & a great improvement on the History page.  
  
> A feature in addition would be an user-requested validation feature
> which would have lynx try that urrl at a later time to see if it became
> possible to fully connect then.
> Perhaps something lynx could try while the user was on oter locations.
> With that, probably a separate validate.html file
> could be maintained and if a urrl validated then it could be moved
> from validate.html to bookmark.html.

all this sounds too complicated to be worth the programming effort,
tho' someone might have a try: useful features for Lynx have to find
willing volunteer code-writers ...

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