Re: lynx-dev reverse search

[Leonid Pauzner]

27-Jul-2000 05:20 Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000, Thomas Dickey (address@hidden) said:
> |
> | On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:53:00AM -0600, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
| >> I've been meaning to ask ...
| >>
| >> ... aside from the obvious "because nobody's coded it" answer, is there
| >> any reason why there's no reverse search function?
> |
> | yes (the underlying issue is that the search would have to traverse a
> | lot of structure, not simply plain text).

> Ah yes ... I remember now from when I added external editor capability
> to TEXTAREA's.  And unfortunately, at least one of the structs is only
> singly linked ... :-( ...

Yes, structs should be double linked for reverse search,
this could improve TEXTAREA implementation by the way...




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