Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features

[T.E.Dickey]

> Unfortanutely, "?" is already in use, for "help". 
that's probably the best use for it (since most people would think of that
first)
  
> And is Kernighan's "Software Tools" book's method,  
> of a back-slash. 
>  
> Of course, we COULD do like emacs and vi and have MULTLIPLE-CHARACTER 
> commands, which would open a wide door for future commands. 
that's a little ugly unless you restrict the set of prefix characters.
(but vi makes better use of uppercase characters)
  
> And, just how often do we use "\"; certainly not 100th as often 
> as we use h, j, k, and l. 
not often (and if you don't need it as an escaping mechanism, makes better
sense than '?' for a backward search)

> It wouldn't be fatal to grab back some of these one-character cmds, 
> and turn them into eg two-char cmds. 
>  
> Emacs uses ESC as the prefix char for multiple-char commands, 
> and vi uses ":".  Why not copy one of those? 
>  
> Just yet another submission of an idea that I have submitted 
> many times before... 


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