Re: LYNX-DEV searching in lists

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

Re: searching popups

Fote has eloquently detailed why it would be quite difficult to extend the
current WHEREIS code to search within popups.

If someone however is really interested in investigating this further, perhaps
there might be a way that rather than extending the WHEREIS code, the
popup_options switch code in LYForms.c itself, where the various function
keys are currently implemented, could be extended to do something similar 
to WHEREIS, but in it's own code, where if the / key is encountered, the
next appropriate text entry is positioned by doing a sort of for loop,
while not the end of the popup, search for the string (case insensitive
is that option is selected in the options), and performing one isntance of
the UP or DOWN LINK code for each entry - but holding off on the
redraw invocation until the code is located.


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