Re: lynx-dev Keys, an attempt to understand

[Leonid Pauzner]

10-Feb-99 22:41 Klaus Weide wrote:
>> >     1.                  2.                    3.
>> >
>> >     byte sequence  ---> lynxkeycode      ---> lynxactioncode
>> >                                      (or ---> lynxeditactioncode)

> I looked at an old lynx2-4-fm.zip - from not long before 2.5, I think -
> the lynxkeycodes defined now, except for the recent MOUSE_KEY thing,
> were all already there as today.  That means that in several years not
> one new code was added for a real key.

At least a Visited Links Page ("V") was introduced between 2.6 and 2.7
I have 2.6 binary (no sources) and see that no keys mapped to uppercase
letters, all keys were case-insensitive instead.

> Your concept, and more so J. Poons' ideas, now go to the other extreme -
> instead of adding nothing, try to include everything.

> Neither may be the best thing to do.  Some middle ground may be to