Re: lynx-dev TEXTAREA (was Re: LYNX-DEV Using Lynx woth web "forums")

[Howard Kaikow]

Any escape character cannot be a valid graphic.

\ is often used when reporting problems or identifying paths for PC based
software.

>On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, David Hardy wrote:
>
>> address@hidden (Larry W. Virden) wrote:
>> 
>> > The point of concern is that lynx implements a form's textarea 
>> > specfications
>> > as the maximum number of rows (and columns?  I forget the status of
>> > this question) rather than as the minimum.
>> > 
>> > The problem of course is how do we in a text window implement textarea
>> > in such a way that one can _leave_ the textarea.  Any control
>> > character chosen means that character can not easily be used within
>> > the textarea itself.
>> > 
>> > I wonder if the tab key might be able to be used to indicate that one
>> > wants to move from the textarea to the next field on the page (assuming
>> > there is another place on the page to which one can move...)
>> 
>> Another possibility is to use a special character to introduce a
>> function, preferably one that's not commonly used in input into a text
>> area. For example, if \ were the special character then \ followed by
>> anything other than another \ could mean 'do the associated function'
>> (for example, \ followed by left-arrow would mean 'back out to the
>> next higher link') while \\ would mean 'put a \ in the text area'.
>> This is similar to the trick used by the C language in strings to
>> introduce control characters.
>
>I wouldn't go for any keystrokes that aren't start with a Ctrl- modifier. 
>In this case I would vote for ^C or ^X for leaving TEXTAREA.  (^C is used
>in UNIX (and DOS in lesser extent) to interrupt process, ^X is exit for
>pico.)
>