Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions

[Foteos Macrides]

Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>[...]
>I know lynx doesn't change the current link or page info when you type a
>link number.  From what you say, it's implemented like a goto.

        Yes.  When you enter a number, n, it starts scanning the hypertext
anchors structure pointed to by the currently displayed HText structure,
and then uses the nth anchor's address equivalently to an address you
might have entered as a 'g'oto.

        I thought the point of treating that as a paging command (draw
a new page with that link in it) instead of an activation was because
you imagined that hypertext links and form fields could be handled as
a single, ordinal array of numbers.  That, and modifying the API to
support a one, ordinally numbered hypertext link or form field per
line feature, would be a *major* undertaking, better put off until
after a v2.7 release, IMHO.

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