Re: lynx-dev reverse search

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Combs wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 01:47:00AM -0600, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> > > > feel the same way ... most pages are short enough that performance is
> > > > probably not an issue with an always-start-at-the-top approach; only on
> > > > very lengthy docs might it become one.
> > > It can be 500 pages long!
> > doesn't lynx store a pointer to the top of the current screen-page?
> > (not the html page).
> 
>  How can this help?

the context for the question was inefficiency of a search from the top
of a page when the html file is large - there's no need to go all the
way to the top for each token if there's a top-of-screen pointer.

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