Re: [Lynx-dev] heading to heading navigation

[davidson]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:31:27 +0530
> > From: Vikash Kesarwani <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: heading to heading navigation
> >
> > Is it possible to do a heading to heading navigation in lynx or is there
> > any patch available for this?
>
> I'm not aware of any way to do this.

What I frequently find convenient (YMMV) is to launch a pager that can
search for regular expressions in the rendered text. Provided, of
course, that the headings in the document are sufficiently
distinctive.

Add an entry to lynx's printer menu, for a pager that can search for
regular expressions. (The comments in lynx.cfg suggest such an entry.)
I use something like this, in lynx.cfg:

 PRINTER:View with less:less %s:TRUE:512

Then you can launch the pager from the printer menu and skip around
how ever the pager permits.

Of course, you've then taken a vacation from the web browsing
environment. You're not doing it "in lynx".

But hey, you didn't want to browse that dumb old web/filesystem at the
moment anyways. You already found the document you were looking for;
now its time to page through a page, with the right tool for that job.

Also, if you're going to stick to that document for a while, it is
nice to have the ability to bookmark multiple positions on the
page. less can do that too.