LYNX-DEV new command: 123 g

[Philip Webb]

970422-3 Kurt Weide suggested: 
>* A "Goto numbered link" feature.
>  Start typing the link number, then add 'g' before hitting enter.
>  It means the following.  Start typing a number:
> 
> |Follow link number: 1
> 
> Continue typing number, and put the letter 'g' (or 'G') on the line
> after the number:
> 
> |Follow link number: 123 g    (The space is not necessary.)
>
> Then hit enter.  Instead of directly following link [123],
> Lynx will just "move to" link [123] in the current document.
> 
> If you don't type a letter 'g', the same will happen as always has
> happened.  If you type anything else (after the number) that doesn't 
> contain a 'g', the same will happen as always, too. :)
> 
> A feature like this has been asked for in the past,
> so now there is a (maybe ugly) way to do it.

no, it's NOT ugly! it's a very elegant way of providing something
several of us asked for a few months ago, incl some of the blind users.

but i've lost the beginning of this: is this something already created
or one of KW's next projects?

either way, its perfection & introduction to 2-7-2 should be hastened.

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