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Re: lynx-dev Re: Horrible mis-feature on "L" page!
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David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Re: Horrible mis-feature on "L" page! |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:10:29 -0700 (PDT) |
> From address@hidden Thu Aug 27 07:28:22 1998
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:17:27 +0100
> From: Sinan Kaan Yerli <address@hidden>
> <snip>:
> Lynx (2.8.1dev.22), help on Lynx List Page
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> References in http://star.cpes.susx.ac.uk/index.html
>
>
> By the way that funny looking link (#18) is the one that you visited and
> its title is captured. Lynx is trying to tell that 'you visited that
> one'. Like changing link colour in net*scrape :-)
(Uh oh -- DWIM (do what I mean) bug/feature coming up)
Here is what I was about to reply:
That's not what I meant -- it is the "address" itself:
* [16]http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/programs/html/execprog.html
* [17]http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/programs/html/phd_program.html
* [18]Courses A - F
* [19]http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/programs/html/concentrationsmba.
html
* [20]http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/fac_index/facindex.html
I mean, there is no preceeding "http://" or ftp or anything else
described (I think) in the lynx help page on urls.
----
I just tried it -- GOOD GOD!, it is TRUE -- you visit
a place, come back, do an L, and the address has been
CHANGED, into the stupid title!
HOW AWFUL!
Because I have gone out in the "tree of links" from this
page, decided it is interesting, and want to do the
L and THEN:
cut-paste the thing (the L page) to some file where I keep
such interesting html-names -- and now, some of those
addresses are GONE!
Which addresses? THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES! The ones that
I went to, that made me decide that I wanted to keep this whole
list of them!
(first: some context-sensitive help WOULD be helpful here,
to DOCUMENT that this happens.)
PLUS,, the title of the L-page is now WRONG:
Lynx List Page
You have reached the List Page
Lynx Version 2.8.1dev.16
References in http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/gradrank/gbmbasp2.htm
Because it does NO LONGER contain "references in http://www.usnews..." --
since some are gone.
----
WORSE YET!
Surely, I think, backing up from the L-page, I can do
a ^R, getting a fresh copy, and then do another L,
on that.
Too bad, sucker: lynx REMEMBERS the fool fact that I have
already been there, and I get the same L-page as before!
Of course, that is just a "premature optimization" bug, or
maybe just a plain old bug -- gotta re-generate the L,
and FORGET (I suppose) where I've been...
Well, that's not so good, since that would screw the
"V" page.
---
Look, I can see a need for having BOTH pieces of info
there on the L page: the unaltered url, AND the fact
that I have been there already, AND (maybe) the fancy title.
How about this: an asterisk at the left if we have already
visited the place.
And MAYBE the "title" of those places either:
. appended to the right?
. on 2nd line?
. avail by separate command (I keep saying we need
a way to have multiple-char commands, like
vi does)
. toggle local to that page, that can toggle the
addrs back and forth between the two types.
(maybe three types: one without the asterisk,
enabling auto-processing by perl or sed, etc)
Suggested char: backslash, which has no current
use on THAT (L) page.
---
Anyway, seems that there is NO way to get a "fresh"
L-page, other than killing Lynx and running it again.
(Thank god it has no saved state on the disk -- at
least not yet!)
Uh, CHEERS!
David
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