Hi Folks,

  Great program, and I would like to thank everyone for writing it. Anyway, I 
have a few feature requests sort of.  First, elinks doesnt seem to support 
'delete-word' or 'delete-line' keybindings inside an editor. I am an excessive 
shell person, and would really love to see this one. Second, I was not able 
change the colour of the 'selected-link'. The selected link--and also the 
forms--appear in 'reverse-video', which is a bit hurting to the eye. I tried 
all sorts of tricks, incluing changing the reverse property of the 
xterm/screen, but didn't work out. So I would like to know if it is possible to 
add this.

  Third, and a bit large request: It is for a proper 2dimensional motion 
strategy. What should happen is this: The left and the right arrows naturally 
takes you across a particular line.  The up/down arrows are a bit more complex. 
up/down arrows will move up/down till it encounters a line that contains a 
link. That is, it will skip a line, if it doesn't contain a url, but will stop 
at a line if there is a link somewhere in that particular line. Please note the 
up/down will NEVER move across. It moves STRAIGHT UP till it reaches a line 
containing a link, and then stays there. You have to then use the left/right 
arrow keys to reach the actual destination.  Of all the browsing mechanisms, I 
have found the above to be the most efficient. I am currently using emacs-w3m 
as my browser, and it allows me configure EVERYTHING--since you can rewrite the 
elisp code of the browser itself. But it is a bit slow, and does not render 
while downloading. But the primary issue is speed itself, since emacs is a bit 
cludgy stuff altogether.
  
  I would really love to switch to elinks, but since I will go insane without 
the above 3 features, currently it entails a bit of risk :-). So I would like 
to know if it is possible to add the above features. I am not really a curses 
person, and if someone could guide me, maybe I can do it myself too. If I add 
the above features, will it be accepted into the main code base? The last thing 
I need is to maintain my own version.  Anyway, I apologize for my meandering 
mail. I am a bit fussy when it comes to the software I use. I am quite 
impressed by elinks, and I think it is trivially the best browser available now.

  Thanks a lot in advance.


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