Triple, I forgot to paste my answer ..... Op za, 22-08-2009 te 09:29 -0400, schreef Thomas Dickey: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Jasper wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I use lynx a lot as a local file manager, both on my own machine as on a > >> remote server maintaining a website. A nice feature is tagging some > >> files, then navigating to another directory, and then hitting the m key > >> for moving the tagged files. This works if you move them to a > >> subdirectory of the current one by typing it's name or to the directory > >> one level lower by specifying "..". But it does not work if you say "." > >> > >> Could this be made to work, it seems logical that it is possible and I > >> would use it a lot ! > > > > It might - I'll look closer, but I think the short answer is that the > > reason > > it doesn't work is that the data needed is not in the current page. > > If that's the case, it would be not that simple to change... > > afterthought: it would be relatively simple to add a new command that > would make Lynx prompt for the pathname to move the files to - but that > would require typing (or cut/paste). > As I understand it, 'm' already does that. I just looked at the 'Your recent statusline messages'-page, the response to moving-to-. is 'Source and destination are the same location - request ignored!', so it seems to take the directory lynx was started is as reference. But it does not do that in response to moving-to-.. or moving-to-subdir.
Thank you for looking into this. --Jasper. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
