lynx-dev patch: TEXTAREA edit help

[Philip Webb]

hopefully, this may get into dev.22 ,
if TD's tax return is challenging enough (smile);
as usual, i've broken lines carefully to match the phrasing.
maybe KD will be able to improve & complete the text,
when she has finished her big move ...

* Add a section to Users Guide to explain the new TEXTAREA editing tools.

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--- new/Lynx_users_guide.html   Sun Apr 11 02:08:30 1999
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      entry field.  NOTE, however, that <em>Return</em> also will <a
      href="#submit">submit</a> the form if the text entry field is the
      only non-hidden field in the form.
+     
+ <dt>TEXTAREA Fields
  <dd>TEXTAREA fields are handled as if they were a series of text entry
      (INPUT) fields for which successive lines imply a newline at the end of
      the preceding line.  You enter text on each line to construct the overall
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      or next line of the overall message, as for INPUT fields, and the
      <em>TAB</em> key will move you down beyond the bottom of the TEXTAREA
      field, or to the first line on the next page if the overall field
!     extends beyond the currently displayed page.
  </dl>
  
  In general, you can move around the form using the standard Lynx navigation
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      or next line of the overall message, as for INPUT fields, and the
      <em>TAB</em> key will move you down beyond the bottom of the TEXTAREA
      field, or to the first line on the next page if the overall field
!     extends beyond the currently displayed page.<P>
! 
! <dt>Editing TEXTAREA Fields
! <dd>TEXTAREA fields can be edited using an external editor<br>
!     by entering <em>^ve</em> when in the TEXTAREA.<p>
! 
!     You can also use two other special TEXTAREA functions<br>
!     by adding KEYMAP bindings to your <em>lynx.cfg</em> file, e.g.<p>
! 
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;KEYMAP:$:GROWTEXTAREA<br>
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;KEYMAP:#:INSERTFILE<p>
! 
!     With these binding -- you can choose other keys -- ,<br>
!     (in a TEXTAREA only) <em>^v$</em> adds 5 lines to the TEXTAREA<br>
!     and <em>^v#</em> brings up the name of an existing file<br>
!     to be inserted into the TEXTAREA (above the cursorline).<br>
!     An automatic variation is normally compiled in,<br>
!     so that hitting <em>Enter</em> with the cursor on the last line<br>
!     adds a new line to the TEXTAREA, with the cursor on it.<p>
! 
!     Some flavors of UNIX, shells & terminal settings require<br>
!     that you enter <em>^v^ve</em> in order to start the editor,<br>
!     as they also use <em>^v</em> as default command-line quote key<br>
!     (called `lnext' in stty man pages and `stty -a' output);<br>
!     to avoid this, you can put `stty lnext undef' in .cshrc<br>
!     or invoke Lynx with a wrapper script, e.g.<p>
! 
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;#!/bin/sh<br>
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;stty lnext undef<br>
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;$HOME/bin/lynx "$@"<br>
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;stty lnext ^V<br>
!     &nbsp;&nbsp;exit<p>
! 
!     NB when NOT in a TEXTAREA, <em>^v</em> is the default command<br>
!     to switch between SortaSGML and TagSoup HTML parsing<br>
!     (i.e. SWITCH_DTD ).
! 
  </dl>
  
  In general, you can move around the form using the standard Lynx navigation

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