Re: LYNX-DEV wishlist item

[Bill Schiavo]

Hello everyone.

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Larry W. Virden, x2487 <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I believe that TAB moves you to the end of a multi-line text field.
> >> 
> >>     [...]
> >> 
> >> True, but if there are several text-entry fields in a row, you have
> >> to tab down through them before the numbered-links functionality
> >> is available again.  I notice this mostly when revising a search
> >> engine query, but it's not much trouble for me to tab to the next
> >> non-text-entry field and then jump to the 'submit' link by number.
> >> 
> >> For someone with a screen-reader, though, it might not be possible to
> >> tell whether you're on a field from which you can jump.  
Actually, it can be quite difficult at times. In that case,
> >> what Laura's suggesting might be a real boon (and I'd probably use it
> >> too...).
> >> 
I think Laura has a good idea and if it won't break anything it should be
implemented.  I don't think we can use ^v to activate this feature
in the development code because it is currently
used for the second HTML parser.

Bill
 > >> > : Laura Eaves <address@hidden>
writes: > >> >
> >> > > It would really be nice if there were an input escapae command --
> >> > > maybe something like ^V, that would get you out of line edit mode
> >> > > and into lynx command mode.  Let it prompt on the
> >
> >I thought this would be useful in conjunction with
> >the 123g feature and form field numbering.  If you're sitting on
> >a text entry field, just hit ^V or whatever to end editing and put
> >you back in the main command loop, possibly prompting for a lynx
> >command.
> >
> >I've been looking at LYForms.c and LYMainLoop.c to see what all
> >this feature would entail.
> >I still don't know if it woujld be feasible or desirable.
> >If anyone can think of a reason not to do this, or has
> >pointers of whow it might be done, I'm all ears.
> 
>       That's trivial to implement.  You simply need to have ^V
> return the character mapped to F_LINK_NUM in form_getstr():
> 
> [...]
>     /*
>      *  And go for it!
>      */
>     for (;;) {
> again:
>         ch = LYgetch();
> #ifdef VMS
>         if (HadVMSInterrupt) {
>           HadVMSInterrupt = FALSE;
>           ch = 7;
>       }
> #endif /* VMS */
>       if (ch == 22) {
>           ch = '0';
>           break;
>       }
> [...]
> 
> 
> though it might be better to get a bit fancier, by adding an LYE_foo
> command for ^V in LYEditmap.c, and go into the loop for a function
> that actually checks and returns the character mapped to F_LINK_NUM,
> in case it was changed from '0' in lynx.cfg.
> 
>                               Fote
> 
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