Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/01/13:36:39
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>Correct, that does work, however I see absolutely no point in the
>program letting the user run the cursor all over the screen. I do use
>TAB and SHIFT TAB because they are fairly standard keys throughout
>programs, however since the arrow keys are also fairly standard (when
>they don't have another useful function) I don't see why the arrow
>keys couldn't easily be programmed to do the same as TAB and
>SHIFT-TAB. In fact, I think that it would be incredibly easy to
>reprogram it to do so, and I'm willing to do it myself when the
>sources are released.
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Well, one of the things I find most irritating about Lynx is that the cursor
keys jump from link to link rather than moving a cursor or scrolling the
screen. As far as I can find out, there is *no way* of scrolling the Lynx
screen a line at a time. You have to either page through the file with the
space bar or go through link by link and hope that there's a link on the next
page or you miss some. I absolutely detest this behaviour and would much
rather have the cursor keys scroll by one line and TAB, SHIFT+TAB move to the
next and previous link.
Your kilometreage may vary...
(One very minor nitpick I have with OpenDOS; why are all the utilities so
*ugly*? Try DISKOPT in plain text mode. It works fine, but it's painful on the
eyes.)
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