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lynx-dev NNN <something-or-nothing> (was: syntax change)
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Klaus Weide |
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lynx-dev NNN <something-or-nothing> (was: syntax change) |
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Tue, 2 Mar 1999 03:44:31 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999, Laura Eaves (address@hidden) said:
> | What do you think the interface should be? What option(s) on the options
> | menu &&/|| lynx.cfg &&/|| .lynxrc &&/|| command line? and what should it/
> | they specify?
>
> Nothing overly involved. Just one option in the o(ption) screen/menu,
> under "user preferences", titled (say) "Numeric link selection format".
>
> Two alternatives named (say):
>
> "Backwardly compatible entry" and
> "Natural order entry"
>
> or some such.
"123 goes" and
"123 needs g to go"
is one such some such...
Here a more general, more extensible approach:
Currently we have (ignoring the +/- stuff, shouldn't be a problem to fit in)
123 - follow link
123 g - position on link
123 p - position on page
Make that instead
123 f - follow link
123 g - position on link
123 p - position on page
And make just plain 123 a configurable shortcut to one of them.
123 = 123 f - current behavior
123 = 123 g - what some people want
123 = 123 p - why not, for someone who thinks in terms of pages
123 = 123 X - for the new function X no-one has yet thought of
Among other things, less confusion for people moving between
different[ly configured] lynxes, and looks easier to document (123 g
is always the same, not "if blah then 123 does A, and 123 g does B,
but if not-blah then 123 does B and 123 f does A, etc.").
Just an idea, I'm not planning to implement it.
Klaus
- Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, dickey, 1999/03/01
- Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, Laura Eaves, 1999/03/01
- Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, Laura Eaves, 1999/03/01
- lynx-dev Re: syntax change, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/01
- Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, Philip Webb, 1999/03/02
- Re: lynx-dev syntax change - f not g, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/02
- lynx-dev Re: syntax change - f not g, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/02
- Re: lynx-dev syntax change - f not g, Philip Webb, 1999/03/02
- Re: lynx-dev syntax change - f not g, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/02
- Re: lynx-dev syntax change - hidden links digression, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/02
- lynx-dev NNN <something-or-nothing> (was: syntax change),
Klaus Weide <=
- lynx-dev Re: NNN <something-or-nothing> (was: syntax change), Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/02
- Re: lynx-dev Re: NNN <something-or-nothing>, Philip Webb, 1999/03/02
Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, Henry Nelson, 1999/03/01
Re: lynx-dev Re: syntax change, dickey, 1999/03/01