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Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: "LINE-NUM-MARKS"


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: "LINE-NUM-MARKS"
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:26:13 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, David Combs wrote:

> I imagine this is currently impossible to do,
> since (I think) html is expanded on-the-fly,
> with no remembered anything?
> 
> Anyway, when reading documentation, some of
> these html-files ("pages" == whole files) are
> VERY VERY LONG -- like 200 screens-worth or more.
> 
> Often you'd like to bounce back and forth between
> two subjects, one on eg screen# (ie page-num, page
> with small "p") 5, one on screen (page) 184, and
> also one on page 85.  

Ok, it seem you are aware of the '123p' feature.

For flipping between two (or more) locations more often,
I find it more convenient to use several search strings 
that occur at those places and then use '/' and the buffer
recall as necessary.

> Only way I know to do it is to download it from
> my shell acct at netcom to my own computer and
> load it into emacs or vi.  Cannot do it ON netcom
> because (my problem) emacs and vi don't display
> correctly there -- especially vi in vi-mode
> (ok in ex-mode).
> 
> Anyway, might be nice if LYNX could do some of
> this "intra-PAGE (ie intra html-file)" bookmarking,
> OR even vi-like via single-char "registers", eg
> register 1, 2, 3, a, b, ...

Might be nice, as may other things, but I don't see it
happening.  There is no notation for that, the meaning of
#fragment in HTML is already defined and cannot be used
for that.  (Ask Al Gilman for where-it-says...)

What you can do is make a copy, and then insert
<A NAME="interesting-section-1">...</A> etc where you want
it, then you can bookmark those.

> I don't know HOW you would remember the mark;
> by line-number in original html (but that is nested,
> and you cannot start in the middle of some nested
> construct), or (better) by linenumber of GENERATED
> ASCII FROM the html -- but that means either you
> have to store the ascii (on disk?) or regenerate
> the whole freaking thing each time.
> 
> What happens now when I hit B, to go back one 
> screenful?  Whole think kept in core?

What's the problem with the history list growing, have you
ever hit the limit of 1024 entries or so?  I agree it could
be more flexible, but...

> Anyway, would be useful, someday.  Please
> someone add this to the (long) wish-list.
> 
> THANKS.

   Klaus

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