Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need for "re-try to get it"

[David Combs]

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> Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 19:57:56 -0700
> From: Michael Warner <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need for "re-try to get it"
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> On Thu, May 07, 1998, David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Often when I type in eg "12" (numbered links) to go somewhere,
> > it just waits -- or maybe comes back failing to find it,
> > eg that all ports are taken.
> > 
> > In either case, it speeds up things, it turns out, for me
> > to "z" it, and try again, which often works, right quick.
> > 
> > Now, if I am "at" that link, it's easy to re-try it; I
> > just hit <return> or L, and I'm off.
> > 
> > However, when I have typed in a number, eg 12, I have to
> > remember what number I typed in, and do it again.
> > 
> > Now, if I hit the up-arrow (not caret) key over to the
> > right of the keyboard, and do it after a "g", it
> > spits-out the last TYPED-IN (or on cmd line) address.
> > 
> > Maybe it would be nice if that "12", or at least the
> > addr it mapped to, was pushed onto that stack too?
> > Then IT would be there when I hit that up-arrow.
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> > Or maybe there is already a key-cmd to re-try the prior thing,
> > and I just don't know about it?
> 
> More social- than software-engineering, but I've pretty well got
> myself trained to tack 'g' and an extra 'enter' onto the link number.
> Then I can restart after an interrupt with just an 'enter'.
> 
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> Michael Warner 
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Sounds like a nice trick that should be documented as such;
but I don't understand it yet.  Prefix g (before the 12),
or suffix, or what?  
Thanks