Re: LYNX-DEV new command: 123 g

[Mike Brown]

> 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.

I don't think it is always (ever?) possible to differentiate between the
number keys across the top of the QWERTY block and the number keys on the
keypad, and like I was trying to say before, arrow keys, PGUP, PGDN, HOME
and END codes don't always work and thus the numeric keypad bindings are
in my opinion essential.  According to Klaus' model, if I understand it
correctly, these single-keypress bindings would lose their immediacy and
would necessitate the extra keypress of RETURN to be invoked. 

I almost agree with the mode-selectable idea, but in the unfortunate event 
that a blind user's arrow keys don't work, navigation becomes more
difficult, except when traveling between numbered links :)


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