Re: lynx-dev non-sticky text inputs

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Heather wrote:

> I arrive at a field I want to fill, I hit (whatever assigned key) to pop it
> open (maybe it draws cute little line box around it).  I am now in a mode
> where (I hope) arrow keys travel around my text allowing me to correct 
> misspellings, maybe a compose key exists or not, backspace eats keys I
> just typed, etc.  Like an editor.  Also like (my favored editor) I hit
> (whatever assigned key) to leave this pop-open field, accepting its content.
> Maybe I also have some means to bail, and not accept what I have just
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> wrecked, but I'd consider that an enhancement - don't worry about it yet.
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^

It's already there - try ^G after making some changes in a line.
(I mapped this also to ^_ for Bash-like Binding, because of somewhat-
similar use to emacs 'undo' which is ^_ by default.)

But memory goes only back to be state at the beginning of the
'line-editing session', which is not always the same as 'when I
entered this field' (example: ^L ends and then restarts line-editing).

   Klaus