Re: lynx-dev A bug in the keymap handling?

[mattack]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> If there is a following situation,
>       link_0
>        link_1 link_2 link_3 link4 link_5
>        link_6 link_7 link_8 link9 link_10
> and current link is link_6, you can move to link_1 by pressing UP_LINK twice,
>then NEXT_LINK.
> 
>
> IMO there is no deterministic algorithm to decide where to go in several
>situations. For example,
>
> link1 A-link-with-a-very-very-very-very-very-long-highlighted-text link2
> link3 link4 link5 link6 link7 link8 link9 link10 link11 link12 ....
> 
> What link should become highlighted after when the current link is
>'A-link-with-a-very-...', and user command was DOWN_LINK?

Well, a good first-step attempt would be 'left edge of link'.

This might be _too_ configurable, but maybe 'left edge', 'middle', and 'right
edge' would be good choice.  Plus you would have 'slop' to each side of a
few characters (maybe even that would be configurable).

I don't even know if Lynx 'knows' where on the screen each link is positioned,
so you could even sort all visible links by location.