Re: LYNX-DEV New Bkmrk from History Page???

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Thu Dec  5 07:54:01 1996
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:27:53 -0600 (CST)
> From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
> 
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if the history page could be saved off actually.  I can
> > easily see times where it would be nice to go down a path, save off the 
> > history,
> > then send the page to a 'customer' showing them the steps to take to find
> > particular kinds of information - not to show them a particular page; for
> > that, one could just send the the final url.  But to show them the
> > 'thought process'. 
> 
> You already can do it.  Press '\', then 'P'.
> 
>    Klaus

I just tried it, and of course, with "\", it comes out
in source html, not quite what Larry wanted to show
the new user.

Doing a straight "p" from the history page does a
really bad "DWIM" (do what I mean) of assuming the user
actually wants the TOP item of the stack printed, instead
of what he plainly said: please print THIS (history) page.

Why not simply what the user plainly asked for?  The
answer of "just use \" is just a kludge (yet another kludge
to memorize) -- there's enough of these already, aren't there?

DWIM is ok when it is obvious what the user "really" wants --
in this case, it would seem to me that it is the exact
OPPOSITE of what the user has EXPLICITLY said he wants.

Agreement?  Disagreement?

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