lynx-dev Re: forms

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what address@hidden said:

> I had a real difficult time filling in a text box on a form, none of the
> familiar editing keystrokes worked.  I was able to delete to the end of
> the line, but not erase a whole line.  And it seemed line-oriented rather
> than screen oriented.  After a fashion it worked, but I hope it can be
> improved.  I usually use a graphic browser, but when I need Lynx, it is
> super handy, so I check my own pages under Lynx.

Yes, if you are usually in a GUI environment, typing into TEXTAREAs in
Lynx will feel weird.  It _is_ just a stack of line-edits.

There is some hope of permitting one to use their favorite text editor,
here, but nobody is working on it currently.

Al

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