Re: lynx-dev multiple bookmark files

[David Combs]

On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:21:32PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Where is there documentation on the multiple bookmarks functionality?
> I looked in the docs directory in the source but it's not described there.
> 
> Basically, I turned on the multi-bookmark file functionality in 
> options and looked around.  (Because I don't know how it works, I can't 
> tell the difference between standard and advanced.)
> 
> Minor minor bug -- if you create an additional entry in the bookmarks 
> list, Lynx doesn't create the file that you specify.  Maybe that would be
> a good idea to prevent what happens when you try to choose a letter to
> a file that doesn't exist:
> It seems to silently show you your original bookmark file, but doesn't
> refresh the screen.  So you see only the first link in your regular bookmarks
> file hilighted, on top of the Select Bookmark File screen.
> 
> Purely cosmetic, but weird.
> 
> 
> Mostly, I'm wondering if there's some "easy" way I can move a whole bunch of
> bookmarks around (even one by one).  I'm finally sick of my 142-line bookmarks
> file, of which about 5 I go to regularly, the rest being stuff I intend to
> "look at later" (like a history of spacewar I just skimmed 20 pages of 33 and
> added a bookmark to go back later), or stuff I infrequently use.
> 
> Anyway, sorry for the rambling -- basically, how do I figure out how to 
> actually use this cool functionality?
> 

The only way (IMHO) to move things around in a bookmark
file is with an editor, be it vi or emacs or whatever.

It's easy, since each bookmark is a single line in the
file (a plain ascii file, too).

Again, IMHO.

David