Re: LYNX-DEV suggestion

[Michael Ritzert]

Larry W. Virden, x2487 writes:

 > 
 > Well, the good news is that, as far as I am aware, the latest development
 > version of lynx has this capability.  The bad news is that I have yet
 > to figure out how to get it to work with xterm or rxvt.

You have to start lynx as "lynx -use_mouse". From trial and error
usage i found out, that links are selected with the left mouse button,
"back to prevoius page" is bound to either the middle or the left
mouse button (seems to depend on the cusers library; my slang based
lynx at home behaves differently from the ncurses based system at
work).

Cut and paste with the mouse is remapped to "Shift-appropriate-mouse-button".

I have found no way to move away from a field in a form.


Unfortunately, it does not always work perfectly: the reaction on the mouse
is sometimes quite sluggish (especially the middle/left button), sometimes
it even stops seeing the mouse at all (the keyboard operation is not
affected, and cut/paste in an xterm does again work as with any other
xterm window). I guess that's the reason why -use_mouse did not make
it into lynx 2-7-2 (a reason for me not to use 2-7-2).

Despite these problems i don't want to miss -use_mouse.

It would be great if the README of the develper's release contained a
short summary how to use this feature. 

Michael