On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:45:05PM +0000, Mark Skilbeck wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Keith Bowes wrote: > > Je 2012-Jan-11 je 20:01, Mark Skilbeck skribis: > > > Ola, fellow text-lovers. > > > > > > After using Lynx for the past couple of days, I've come to the conclusion > > > that > > > text-browsers are the only worthy browsers! Thank you for your work. With > > > that > > > said, there is an improvement (subjective opinion, o'course!) I would > > > like to > > > see accepted into the code, and that is the ability to supply some > > > content to > > > Jump URLs. For example, if I have a Jump defined as: > > > > > > <dd>dgg<dt><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?s=%s";>DuckDuckGo search</a>, > > > > > > a call then to the "ddg" Jump with the extra text "lynx web browser", > > > would be > > > expanded as follows: > > > > > > http://duckduckgo.com/?s=lynx+web+browser, > > > > > > with proper URL-encoding (Percent-encoding) applied. > > > > > > > Yeah, I've thought that myself, to make jumps work more like Mozilla's > > bookmark keywords (which AFAIK, originated in IE 5). I've always > > figured that the developers don't want such code bloat; they've > > addressed this in the issue, that a feature should only be available if > > there's a consensus. > > It would be useful, no? Well, I think it shouldn't be a problem to include if > we > can agree on the best implementation. Currently, I think the best option is: > > 1. Search jump URL for "%s"; > 2. If found, prompt for input; > 3. Substitute %s with input; > 4. Go! > > It might even be worth storing a boolean in the JumpDatum structure when > loading > the jumps to speed-up repeated uses of jumps.
perhaps. If it's something that's run once per user interaction, it's likely to be so small that no one can measure it. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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