Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions

[Webmaster Jim]

On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:42:51PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>  Here are some questions:
> 
>    Memory management:
[...]
  Your analysis sounds correct. Zeroing memory is not very
time-consuming, but I've noticed a much longer startup time when
comparing very old lynx (2-3) with today's.

>   Keyboard layout:
> * It seems that there are only very few keys that are unassigned. May be it's
>   time to switch to handling of key sequences (may be limiting their length by
>   two keys for now, like ^x-s)
[a FAQ]

>   New features I hope I will be able to add sometime (but I'd like somebody 
>   implemented them :) :
> *Regex matching
>   I'm planning to use Stallman's regex library since it offers  the ability to
>   select the regex style - for example - whether |,+,?,(,),{,} are special 
>   symbols (and their slash-escaped versions are literals) or vice versa.
>   Since it's impossible to make rx searches in multibyte strings, IMO the 
> string
>   search command (as implemented now) should be preseved.
>      Now, the question is: what keys should the rx searches be assigned to.
>   Note: IMO ability to do case sensitve and case insensitive rx-searches is 
> very 
>   desirable (and may be these variants should be treated as different 
> commands).
>      IMO they should be key-sequences if key sequence support will be 
>  implemented.  What do you think?

  Searches should optionally be done with or without regexp support. It
would make sense to use the same keys as the current search method ("/",
"n", "s"). This option should be configurable as well as switchable.

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