Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15

[Philip Webb]

990128 Bela Lubkin wrote: 
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> Bela Lubkin wrote:
>>> We could also think about auto-expanding when hitting return
>>> in the last on-screen line -- but some user interface dangers there,
>>> need to be careful about it.
>> what dangers are you thinking of?  it looks like a good idea generally.
> I'm used to hammering on RETURN to pass over a textarea.
> If RETURN suddenly started appending to the textarea, I would mess up.

i seem to remember hitting Down-arrow, but chacun a sa clef ...

> Mitigate this by only adding lines if the previous line was non-empty.
> Then if I had 3 lines filled of a 10-line textarea,
> I wouldn't end up adding any lines;
> and if I had 10 of 10 filled, I'd add 1 blank line, then move on.
 
surely that's the solution: Return calls up a further input line
only if you've already written something on the last existing line.

-- 
========================,,============================================
SUPPORT     ___________//___,  Philip Webb : address@hidden
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|  Centre for Urban & Community Studies
TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'  University of Toronto