Re: LYNX-DEV Re: New Lynx FAQ

[David Combs]

Yes, progressing nicely!  Will eventually have some
possible additions to it myself.

One thing, though:  At the top, there's all
these interior-links (there must be a proper term for
that -- what is it?) that point down into the same
doc.  Following the pointed-to text, there is
a link back to the top, something like
    click here to get to top again.

(I forget just exactly the wording).

Anyway, if you actually DO that several times, eg see
something interesting, go to it, "click" to go back to
the top, see something else interesting, go to it, etc, etc,
and then finally you hit backspace and look at the
history page, you see that you're all stacked up WAY
higher than when you started.

Which makes it hard to get back down to where you
were BEFORE you started looking at the FAQ-link!,
at least by popping (via H) back down the now tall stack.

SUGGESTION: change that "click here to get back to top"
(or whatever it actually DOES say) instead to
the simple STATEMENT (not link) "hit ^A to get back
to top".

OR maybe a DWIM (do what I mean) (usually bad idea,
maybe here too) so that that clicking-on-the-goBack-link
actually POPS the stack and gets back to the top THAT way --
IF the prior (top-1) think IS the top.

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Related idea: you'd maybe like to EDIT the history
page a la dired, so that you could via editing commands
delete items from the middle of the stack.


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Another idea: would be nice if the history stack
had a field showing whether the lower-down item was
in the cache, or had to be read in again from 10,000
miles away, just to pop down the stack BEYOND it...
 

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