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Re: lynx-dev multiple bookmark files
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev multiple bookmark files |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:58:19 -0700 |
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:21:32PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
>
> Where is there documentation on the multiple bookmarks functionality?
> I looked in the docs directory in the source but it's not described there.
>
> Basically, I turned on the multi-bookmark file functionality in
> options and looked around. (Because I don't know how it works, I can't
> tell the difference between standard and advanced.)
>
> Minor minor bug -- if you create an additional entry in the bookmarks
> list, Lynx doesn't create the file that you specify. Maybe that would be
> a good idea to prevent what happens when you try to choose a letter to
> a file that doesn't exist:
> It seems to silently show you your original bookmark file, but doesn't
> refresh the screen. So you see only the first link in your regular bookmarks
> file hilighted, on top of the Select Bookmark File screen.
>
> Purely cosmetic, but weird.
>
>
> Mostly, I'm wondering if there's some "easy" way I can move a whole bunch of
> bookmarks around (even one by one). I'm finally sick of my 142-line bookmarks
> file, of which about 5 I go to regularly, the rest being stuff I intend to
> "look at later" (like a history of spacewar I just skimmed 20 pages of 33 and
> added a bookmark to go back later), or stuff I infrequently use.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the rambling -- basically, how do I figure out how to
> actually use this cool functionality?
>
The only way (IMHO) to move things around in a bookmark
file is with an editor, be it vi or emacs or whatever.
It's easy, since each bookmark is a single line in the
file (a plain ascii file, too).
Again, IMHO.
David