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Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs
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Benjamin C. W. Sittler |
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Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs |
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Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:38:10 -0700 (MST) |
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Al Gilman wrote:
> > Oh, no! You would break the best part of Lynx -- how it runs from
> > the four cursor keys.
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) wrote:
> > Ugh. Right Arrow Not Broke. Don't Fix!
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> > I've been thinking about this some more. Needing to go forward in the
> > history is not as common as going back or following a link. The
> > parallelism between Go Back and Go Forward would be nice, but not at
> > that expense.
> >
> > Strike my vote for the right arrow.
>
> I had pretty much decided against that anyway. To most people, the arrow
> key operation is just too ingrained, and has been that way for a LONG
> time. Navigation in gopher can be done entirely with the arrow keys. Tin
> allows similar operations using the arrow keys. The right arrow key
> should stay "activate" even though it seems an obvious choice in many ways
> for a forward command.
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote:
> > How about taking the plunge into multi-character bindings?
> > :n would be fairly familiar to users of `less'.
> > And perhaps :x could someday be an escape for emacs-style logn command
> > names, so that you can access infrequently-used features without tying up
> > more keys.
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> > Record my vote for a more cumbersome key combination, preferably :n .
>
> I presume this is from the next document command on less and most... Seems
> kind of an odd choice... I think most of us agree that 2 key commands will
> eventually come, but is this necessary right now? There are still several
> keys unmapped. To the best of my knowledge the following keys are still
> free:
>
> Dollar Sign $ (might be a problem on international keyboards...
> the British have those funny little cursive L's
> *tongue in cheek*)
> Percent Sign %
> Caret ^
> Ampersand &
> Underscore _
> Vertical Bar | (common in unix as a pipe command and might should
> be reserved as such...)
> Curly Braces {} (both are still free)
> (Semi)Colon :; (again, both are free. A WHOLE KEY on many kb's!)
> Period .
> Tilde ~
Personally, I'd like to have the option for fairly arbitrary mappings in
the lynx.cfg file, with 'bindings' to long command names like emacs uses.
But then, I am an emacs weenie ;). Whether or not 'next document' is bound
to a key (or even gets written) I'd like to reserve a prefix for long
commands. As a frequent user of `less' and `screen', and a former user of
`vi', I thing colon (:) is a logical choice for an extended command
prefix, and should be reserved for such.
Semicolon (;) and period (.) both seem likely candidates for the 'next'
document' binding, as they are near the 'vi' movement keys on a qwerty
keyboards.
Just my take on it.
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- LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs, Tom Zerucha, 1996/12/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs, Al Gilman, 1996/12/05
- Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs, Christopher R. Maden, 1996/12/05
- Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1996/12/05
- Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs,
Benjamin C. W. Sittler <=
Re: LYNX-DEV History disappears - how do I get a list of ALL past URLs, Tom Zerucha, 1996/12/07