Re: lynx-dev patch that allows text inputs to be non-sticky

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >>[Vlad:] 
> >> >>  Also, when textarea (textinput with multiply lines) is encountered, 
> >> >> user has
> >> >> to activate each line of it separately (seems not too bad).
> >> 
> >> Yeah, hopefully you will be able to just arrow over it with one key,
> >> just like a regular link -- i.e. downarrow gets you to 'editfield selected
> >> but not editing', downarrow again moves you to the next item..
> >
> > Seems that you'll be unable to edit, say, 3rd line of textarea if such logic
> >will be implemented. 
> 
> Well, I don't know how hard this is to implement in the source, but all
> I'm talking about is the whole text area to act as if it were ONE big 
> thing, even though it's really a bunch of separate lines edited "together".
> (This is what I gather from the discussion here.)

That's a job for TAB (and backtab if you have it).  I don't think Down
Arrow and Up Arrow should suddenly change meaning depending on the state
of 'activatedness'.

   Klaus