Re: lynx-dev bug? unable to 'g' to #anything

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 990426 Vlad Harchev wrote: 
> > > lynx doesn't accept anchors as 'g' targets.
> > > If you enter '#anything', it jumps to dired of current directory.

It's been behaving like that for a long time.  The question is, should it
behave differently?  Selecting fragments by hand isn't a very common
occurrence.

This could be seen as a special case of a more general question: should
lynx try to resolve relative Goto URLs (presumably wrt. the currently
loaded document)?  I think not, at least for the general case.  It would
conflict with what it currently does, trying to guess several ways what a
non-full-URL string might mean.

Even for the '#anything' case - if you have a file named '#anything',
'g' '#anything' will load that file.

> > you can do it by entering  G , then adding  #anchor  to the presented URL,
> > tho' you than have to do  ^r  to get it to move to that page.
>  
>  Thanks. Seems that it's ugly enough - going to anchors is useful for large
> documents, and pressing '^r' will reload them.

It shouldn't be too difficult to remove the need for the RELOAD.

   Klaus