Re: [Lynx-dev] a page 90% full of text-entry fields: how to do "go to" <link-num>?

[Tim Chase]

David Combs wrote:
> Say you hit a page that's 90% or 99% or even 100% full of
> text-entry places, eg
>
>     [20] __________________ your preference
>
> Whole page full of that stuff.
>
>
> Problem: any command you type in is taken-in not as
> a command to (immediately) execute, but instead as
> plain old TEXT to be entered into that field.
>
>
> How the heck to do one of, eg:
>
> 1:  G 60  (ie go to label 60)
>
> 2:  backspace  (ie backup to prior page)
>
> 3:  control-P (etc) gets entered as text?  
>
> or so forth.

For exactly this reason, I fly with

TEXTFIELDS_NEED_ACTIVATION:TRUE

in my lynx.cfg file.  It can be a pain when filling out long 
forms of text fields where each needs a value, as you need to 
activate each field to enter text into it.  However, since I also 
use the Vi key-bindings, without the TFNA option set, I 
annoyingly would regularly end up with "jjj" in my text fields. 
This TFNA option saves me a lot of hassle.

I do wish that it was a local ~/.lynxcfg option, particularly one 
that was available in the Options screen, but from what I can 
tell, it has to be set in your global /etc/lynxcfg file (or 
specified as your master cfg file on the command-line).  Or at 
least if you enabled vi keybindings, it would change TFNA to true 
automatically :)

Most control characters should still work (if they don't, that 
may be a different problem, or you may be using control chars 
that have dual meaning based on context).

-tim