Re: LYNX-DEV new command: 123 g

[Al Gilman]

  From: address@hidden (Philip Webb)

  970422-3 Kurt Weide suggested: 
  > 
  > A feature like this has been asked for in the past,
  > so now there is a (maybe ugly) way to do it.
  
  no, it's NOT ugly! it's a very elegant way of providing something
  several of us asked for a few months ago, incl some of the blind users.
  
Yes, there have been repeated requests for this including from
blind users.

On the other hand... maybe I will avoid the U word... this is not
the highest and best way to access this function.  You don't
really want to mix and match these versions of numbered-links
function within a session.  You want to fix Lynx so it works one
way and forget that you had to learn it.  

If there were a modifier involved, it would be that "immediate"
(the present behavior) requires the extra keystroke, not the way
it is in Klaus's current implementation.  On this definition of
the interface, you can page the cursor to link 123 with '123<CR>'
and follow link 123 without going to that link in the current
document first with something like '123!<CR>,' using '!' for
"immediate."

The "immediate" variant is not necessary at runtime if the
just-move-cursor-to-link behavior is configured on somehow.  It
is gravy.  It is a one-keystroke-for-one-keystroke optimization.
That mean's it's undesirable because it introduces a peculiar
keystroke to save a standard keystroke -- you _don't_ want this.
You can go to the HREF of link 123 with '123<CR><CR>' anyway.

PS: The ability to move to or follow a link by number should be
unbundled from keypad key-coding and from the screen display of
numbers at links or displaying links unnumbered.  Typing in a
number across the top of the QWERTY block should at least [and
preferrably] move your cursor to the link of that number in the
current document, at all times and without regard to other modes.
Display of link numbers, keypad encoding, and the "immediate"
(current function) retrieval of URLs by link number should be
mode-selectable.

$.02

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Al Gilman
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