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Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features
From:
T.E.Dickey
Subject:
Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features
Date:
1998年4月24日 18:07:37 -0400 (EDT)
> Unfortanutely, "?" is already in use, for "help".
that's probably the best use for it (since most people would think of that
first)
> And is Kernighan's "Software Tools" book's method,
> of a back-slash.
>
> Of course, we COULD do like emacs and vi and have MULTLIPLE-CHARACTER
> commands, which would open a wide door for future commands.
that's a little ugly unless you restrict the set of prefix characters.
(but vi makes better use of uppercase characters)
> And, just how often do we use "\"; certainly not 100th as often
> as we use h, j, k, and l.
not often (and if you don't need it as an escaping mechanism, makes better
sense than '?' for a backward search)
> It wouldn't be fatal to grab back some of these one-character cmds,
> and turn them into eg two-char cmds.
>
> Emacs uses ESC as the prefix char for multiple-char commands,
> and vi uses ":". Why not copy one of those?
>
> Just yet another submission of an idea that I have submitted
> many times before...
--
Thomas E. Dickey
address@hidden
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features , David Combs, 1998年04月24日
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features , David Combs, 1998年04月24日
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features , John E. Davis, 1998年04月24日
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features,
T.E.Dickey <=
- Re: lynx-dev suggestions for new features , John E. Davis, 1998年04月24日