Re: LYNX-DEV suggestion

[T.E.Dickey]

> Larry W. Virden, x2487 writes:
> 
>  > 
>  > Well, the good news is that, as far as I am aware, the latest development
>  > version of lynx has this capability.  The bad news is that I have yet
>  > to figure out how to get it to work with xterm or rxvt.
> 
> You have to start lynx as "lynx -use_mouse". From trial and error
> usage i found out, that links are selected with the left mouse button,
> "back to prevoius page" is bound to either the middle or the left
> mouse button (seems to depend on the cusers library; my slang based
> lynx at home behaves differently from the ncurses based system at
> work).
oh - I thought that we had made them (slang/ncurses) the same.
Can you summarize the differences?  (will save time...)
 
> Cut and paste with the mouse is remapped to "Shift-appropriate-mouse-button".
not remapped - this is standard behavior of xterm (it reserves the
shifted-mouse-buttons for the select/paste behavior in case the unshifted
buttons are modified to implement the positioning controls).
 
> I have found no way to move away from a field in a form.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, it does not always work perfectly: the reaction on the mouse
> is sometimes quite sluggish (especially the middle/left button), sometimes
> it even stops seeing the mouse at all (the keyboard operation is not
> affected, and cut/paste in an xterm does again work as with any other
> xterm window). I guess that's the reason why -use_mouse did not make
> it into lynx 2-7-2 (a reason for me not to use 2-7-2).
I think Fote ignored it, since he probably has no good way to test it.
(I don't remember him discussing any terminal types other than DEC &
compatibles)
 
> Despite these problems i don't want to miss -use_mouse.
> 
> It would be great if the README of the develper's release contained a
> short summary how to use this feature. 
> 
> Michael
> 


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