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Re: lynx-dev Re: next/prev link
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Laura Eaves |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: next/prev link |
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Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:51:07 -0500 (EST) |
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:10:01 -0800
> From: David Combs <address@hidden>
>...
> On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 03:58:06PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 990225 Laura Eaves wrote:
> > > How making + and - a suffix:
> > > 123+ or 123- to jump forward or back 123 links?
> > > That could be augmented by the p or g suffix: 123+g etc.
> > > This wouldn't be hard to add if there is interest,
> > > since 0123g (or p ) works without link numbering, so would + and -
> >
> > it certainly looks like a useful addition as described:
> > can you offer a patch, as the expert in this area (smile)?
> >
>
> Please -- in what way would this feature be useful?
>
> Especially the +-g suffix -- kind of bold, doing that,
> being so sure that you have memorized the page.
One place I would use +g or -g is to do what someone recently suggested
-- going to the next or previous link when there are pages in between
that contain no link. Currently down arrow (for example) when at the
bottom of a page will take you to the next page whether or not there are any
links on it. You might want to skip ahead several pages to the next numbered
link -- i.e., 1+g.
Note also 5+p might be nice to skip ahead 5 pages. (Saves
doing an extra math in your head to calculate the target page...)
> I mean, what's so bad about numbered links. You then
> just write down on paper the interesting numbers, and
> can go directly to them. Why this relative stuff?
Not everyone uses numbered links and/or form fields.
> (Well, if you REALLY need that, you already have j and k,
> via vikeys; being SO short of keys, why do some others?
> so 20j would work as intended).
See above, if you mean j is down-arrow and k is up-arrow.
> I suppose that I CAN see a use for 20j or 100j -- but
> 123j? or 123jg?
???
> ALSO, the suggested use of the suffix-g is the exact OPPOSITE
> to the CURRENT suffix-g, which means "do NOT FOLLOW that link"!
>
> Puzzled.
No, it's the same. With g you reposition the current link; without g
you follow that link as if it were a goto.
--le
PS: I did try implementing this last night and ran into some harry complexities
with the +/-g suffix. (+/-p was relatively easy and seems to work.)
If I get the nits resolved and no one objects, I'll post the patch.