Thomas Dickey wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 02:01:47AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Thomas Dickey wrote in |> <[email protected]>: |>|On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Chime Hart wrote: |>|> Hi All: An only mention of this which I found in searching was my \ |>|> own 2022 |>|> post. I am `certainly hoping-and-requesting this option can be added \ |>|> to LYNX, |>|> as I use a Capital C to change directories `quite a number of times \ |>|> daily |>|> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2022-04/msg00000.html |>|> Since I am only a user-and-not a programmer, I have no idea if it \ |>|> is possible |>|> to ajust this, or if there are local steps I can take on this end? \ |>|> Thanks so |>|> much in advance |>| |>|tab-completion for the directory-names would require programming work, |>|as mentioned in |>| |>|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-01/msg00010.html |> |> There is a "rlwrap" thing that can be used to enwrap many programs |> with the readline library. I would not know in how far this |> works for a program that fully manages the terminal (lynx here |> links against ncurses), but once a user pointed another user who |> asked for line editor capabilities of the MUA i maintain to that; | |rlwrap can help with command-history (actually not with lynx, because |it already does _that_), but not with tab-completion (because the |relevant data isn't available to rlwrap).
Have you tried it? If i recall correctly (over a decade, i think in 2015 i wrote the line editor), if you hit tab, it "completes like grazy". And i looked and it was about directory changing, and if we talk about CWD, and he wants to change that, i would presume readline then goes. (Now out for cycling.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
