LYNX-DEV View-Source and TEXTAREA thoughts

[davidh]

1. About the <TEXTAREA> problem...

Perhaps you could implement TEXTAREAs as a button that, when selected,
pops you into $EDITOR (whatever's currently configured, same for sending
mail or news) with a file in /tmp (insert other platform's temp directory
here).  When you exit the editor and return to Lynx, Lynx reads in that
file and stores it in memory as something to submit when you send the
form (but not changing the displayed version).

This would address several things:
  * Don't run out of lines
  * Use your preferred editor commands (vi, emacs, notepad, whatever)
  * Can save your entered documents to another file if you wish

2. On the source-viewing problem...

Implement a "view-source:" URL, much like Netscape's.  Pressing "\" will
take you to "view-source:http://your/current/page";, which you can scroll
through or save or whatever, and pressing the left arrow would return to
the rendered document.

It wouldn't have to use the "view-source:" URL, though...  it could just
act like ] does to send a HEAD request.  If you press = when looking at
a HEAD, you see the current URL.  But you can still go back a document
to return to the currently rendered document.

David Henderson
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