Re: lynx-dev SCROLL_STEP

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "PW" == Philip Webb <address@hidden> writes:

PW> 980423 Thomas Dickey wrote: 
>> In a recent note, Philip Webb said: 
>>> 980422 Jason McBrayer wrote:  
>>>> What might be nice would be a SCROLL_STEP 
>>>> to define how many lines those scroll. 

>>> Aren't the digits already committed" That's what "k" tells me.  Or
>>> is that just the keypad digits?

>> yes: the digits are already mapped.
>> (keypad digits either are indistinguishable from the other digits,
>> or generate escape sequences you cannot readily relate to the keypad
 
PW> no, no: surely Jason's idea -- certainly mine -- was that there
PW> would be a global SCROLL_STEP defined in lynx.cfg , so the user
PW> could choose a regular number of lines to scroll, albeit not
PW> changeable at command time; maybe it could also be changeable via
PW> the options screen.

Yes, that was certainly the idea I had in mind.  It would not involve
any new keymappings, it would just change the behavior of ( and ) or
^N and ^P to scroll some fixed number of lines defined in lynx.cfg or
.lynxrc (probably easier from a programming perspective to put it in
lynx.cfg).  It would be sort-of like the behavior of the scroll-step
variable in Emacs, which is where I took the name from.

PW> is it difficult to program?  it looks like a very simple change.

I'm afraid I'm too busy to take a look at it.  I would think it would
be easy, though.

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