From: dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject: Re: [opendos] A suggestion for DOSBOOK.
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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 97 18:21:58 +0000
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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.
[...]

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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