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Re: LYNX-DEV Capital G command vanished


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Capital G command vanished
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 10:43:16 -0500 (EST)

Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
>  From: address@hidden
>
>  I used to be able to hit G and it would bring up the last URL I
>  had accessed. If I wanted to type in a new one, I could but if I 
>  just wanted to change something in it and keep most of the URL I
>  could do that too. Now everytime I hit G it comes up blank and I
>  have to retype everything. I understand that I can use jump and 
>  I'll try it to see how it works for my purposes, but I did find
>  it useful to have the last URL come up. I access mostly newspapers
>  and if I want to enter the URL for the previous day, it's slightly
>  different but the beginning part is the same. I don't know why it 
>  stopped (maybe when I set up a bookmarks file?) and I couldn't find
>  anything in help that seemed to tell me how to change the setting.
>  
>There are ways you could have disturbed the key-binding.  This is
>described in the comments in lynx.cfg.
>
>Check with 'k' or 'K' for the active key bindings.  What I get 
>includes:
>
>g           GOTO          go to a document given as a URL
>G           ECGOTO        edit the current document's URL and go to it
>
>If there is no entry for ECGOTO when you use the KEYMAP command
>'k' you (or your sysop) have somehow upset the default key
>binding for Lynx 2.7.  

        It has nothing to do with that.  He's looking for the old
behavior, which can be restored via the GOTOBUFFER symbol in lynx.cfg:

# Set GOTOBUFFER to TRUE if you want to have the previous goto URL,
# if any, offered for reuse or editing when using the 'g'oto command.
# The default is defined in userdefs.h.  If left FALSE, the circular
# buffer of previously entered goto URLs can still be invoked via the
# Up-Arrow or Down-Arrow keys after entering the 'g'oto command.
#
#GOTOBUFFER:FALSE


and he doesn't know about the circular buffer, as described in that
comment for GOTOBUFFER, and thus that he should press the Up-Arrow
key after 'g' if he wants the previous URL to edit, and keep pressing
if he wants any other, previous, 'g'oto URL.

        However, since he doesn't know those things, he indeed
should also be informed that 'g' and 'G' are now related but
different commands (GOTO versus ECGOTO).  If he in fact had
pressed uppercase 'G' (which he obvioulsy didn't) he would have
gotten the URL for the currently displayed document for editing
and ACTIVATE-tion.

                                Fote

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