lynx-dev Patch for mouse in Slang

[Eduardo Chappa]

Hello,

  Attached is a patch that I use (since lynx2.8.1) for mouse operations in
Lynx. When Lynx is compiled with Slang, the patch adds the following
functions:

 * Middle button takes you to the bookmarks file.

 * Clicking on empty parts of the screen makes the screen scroll. This is
   not 100% true, here are the caveats related to this:

   - When you click in the first line of the screen pine goes back one
     screen, the same happens when you click in the last line (this is
     normal Lynx behavior, I did nothing in this respect). With this
     patch, intemediate scrolling is enabled, which means that
     left clicking in different (empty parts) of the screen may move you
     half a screen or two lines. The idea is that close to the top you
     scroll more, close to the center you scroll less and you scroll in
     the direction up or down according to which half of the screen you
     click on.

   - If you click on an empty part of the screen, Lynx changed its
     behavior from doing nothing to moving the active link to the closest
     link near the click. This was added after 2.8.1 (don't have the exact
     reference to when this happened, though). This is not disabled by
     this patch, instead, if a closest link is not found, the screen will
     scroll, according to the position of the link. At first I found the
     fact that Lynx moved the position of the active link annoying, but
     quickly got accostumed to it, and learnt that if I needed to scroll I
     needed to be careful where I clicked on the screen, I hope that
     people who prefer to click to move the active link, won't find that
     the fact that the screen scrolls annoying, when they click in an
     incorrect part of the screen, and they learn the new behavior (which
     I find very useful). In any case, it's easy to figure out where to
     click in order to scroll, and where not to click.

Thank you for your consideration.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

lynx2.8.4.mouse.patch
Description: Patch for mouse