Re: lynx-dev Keys with partial

[Philip Webb]

990804 Klaus Weide wrote: 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>> What is the logic behind nost navigation keys not working
>> with partial display set?  Most importantly, arrow keys,
>> but mouse would be nice as well.
> Many navigation keys don't make sense
> in a state where there is no notion of "current link".

you dismiss the suggestion too cursorily.
often i find myself waiting for a newspaper document to finish arriving,
knowing i want to enter eg  /marker  to goto the start of the text
-- newspapers have very predictable layouts day-by-day -- ,
but  /  &  n  are not seen by Lynx if there's any pause in transmission
-- & so have to be repeated -- & neither work during transmission itself.

>> A reasonalbe behaviour of LEFT and RIGHT might be
>> to interrupt the transfer as if 'z' was pressed.
> Please no.
 
maybe you didn't stop to understand:
eg i'm downloading a long index document from a newspaper
& know i want to follow link [45]:  45g Enter Enter  would be nice to have;
also, i may already know i don't want this document
&  Left-arrow  is slightly quicker than  z Left-Arrow .

there doesn't seem to be any inherent obstacle to making these work,
other than the programmer time/interest, of course.

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