From pelzlpj@eecs.umich.edu Wed Mar 24 18:10:05 2004 Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev]Compiling 0.8.0 Debian

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:33:58PM -0800, TBLittlefoot wrote:

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I'm one of these weirdos that doesn't like to fondle plastic rodents :-) and wonder how difficult it would be to have an option that would number all the links on a page and allow one to enter that number instead of clicking on the link. I use w3m a lot for my-1st stage surfing, and it allows me to Tab down to a link and then hit Return, but that's pretty clumsy.

There is an unofficial patch that:

1) lets you jump between links using arrow keys (or whatever keys you specify)

2) includes an incremental search, like Mozilla's "type ahead find" which is also convenient for selecting links via keyboard

Let me know if you're interested, and I can point you in the right direction.

You bet I'm interested...Any step in the right direction. What I was envisioning is having like ^N as a toggle that would put a number in a little box, black on white, before each link, or turn them off. If it was on, then any number entered would be interpreted as a command to go that URL. Seems like the code could be pretty easy, just numbering every link on the page rather than worrying about limiting this to the screenful that's up. Simple incrementation, right? (I'm fairly handy with sh-compatible shell scripting.)

Paul

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Okay, I'll byte: What's all that mean? Emplyee number, local mailbox, and permission to be in that office at that time identifer (or ids for machines in two different offices) ????? Tom