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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need for "re-try to get it"
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Bela Lubkin |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need for "re-try to get it" |
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Fri, 8 May 1998 04:31:32 -0700 |
David Combs wrote:
> Often when I type in eg "12" (numbered links) to go somewhere,
> it just waits -- or maybe comes back failing to find it,
> eg that all ports are taken.
>
> In either case, it speeds up things, it turns out, for me
> to "z" it, and try again, which often works, right quick.
>
> Now, if I am "at" that link, it's easy to re-try it; I
> just hit <return> or L, and I'm off.
>
> However, when I have typed in a number, eg 12, I have to
> remember what number I typed in, and do it again.
>
> Now, if I hit the up-arrow (not caret) key over to the
> right of the keyboard, and do it after a "g", it
> spits-out the last TYPED-IN (or on cmd line) address.
>
> Maybe it would be nice if that "12", or at least the
> addr it mapped to, was pushed onto that stack too?
> Then IT would be there when I hit that up-arrow.
>
> ----
>
> Or maybe there is already a key-cmd to re-try the prior thing,
> and I just don't know about it?
What if 12<Return> did:
- follow link 12
- remember that you were on link 12
i.e. as if you had typed 12g<Return>12<Return>?
I think this could be done by adding a:
curdoc.link = newdoc.link;
into the code for DO_LINK_STUFF in LYMainLoop.c. But I haven't tried
it.
Besides having the effect you're asking for, this would have another
effect that I've wished for. Having followed that link normally, if you
went back (PREV_DOC), you would be positioned on link 12. I use Lynx's
cache as a mental aide, to remember where I was in that document. What
I want it to remember is exactly what you're asking for: which link I
had followed to get where I was. Even if I wasn't on that link when I
followed it.
>Bela<