Re: LYNX-DEV remaining cmd-keys (WAS History disappears ...)

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Thu Dec  5 19:53:30 1996
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:32:56 -0600 (CST)
> From: Robert Bonomi <address@hidden>
...
> + free:
> + 
> + Dollar Sign $       (might be a problem on international keyboards...
> +                      the British have those funny little cursive L's
> +                      *tongue in cheek*)
> + Percent Sign        %
> + Caret               ^
> + Ampersand   &
> + Underscore  _
> + Vertical Bar        |       (common in unix as a pipe command and might 
> should
> +                      be reserved as such...)
> + Curly Braces        {}      (both are still free)
> + (Semi)Colon :;      (again, both are free.  A WHOLE KEY on many kb's!)
> + Period              .
> + Tilde               ~
> 
> 
> I'd nominate '{' and '}'  for 'back' and 'forward'.
> 
> '~'  would find reasonable use as "yet another"  HOME key.
> 
> >From a 'plan ahead' standpoint, it would seem reasonable to preserve ':'
> as an 'extended commands' introduction character, and to use ';' as a
> separater between multiple such commands invoked at once.  with this,
...

Agreed, sounds good.  

Tcl as parser: would add huge core-need to small machines.

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