Re: [Lynx-dev] Don't open link on left mouse click

[Robin Stern]

@Karen this is getting off topic. Because you are new to w3m, you are
probably unaware of some goodness from it that can be inherits by lynx.
Most importantly, you can display and search just the title of links by
pressing Meta-m, which is Escape-m by default. It’s a way better feature
than what lynx has as list page that lists the long URLs that don’t mean
anything a lot of the time.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 12:38 PM Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>
wrote:

> But lynx allows one to search the page using the slash key.  why would one
> use  tab keys when one can narrow down the link goal?
> granted, I just tried w3m for the first time this afternoon, not
> JavaScript enough  for the Toronto public library, but neither is links or
> elinks.
> still,  not having the slash key find option meant it took me longer to
> reach   the link I sought.
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Robin Stern wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 02:15:46PM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> >> On 02/08/2022 12:20, Mouse wrote:
> >>> (a) so here's an opportunity for lynx to do better!
> >>
> >> They did it at a time when the convention of single click to select and
> >> double click to activate was a standard part of the Windows user
> interface.
> >> I think they took that position that selection wasn't something that
> people
> >> wanted to do with hypertext links, i.e., I think they thought single
> click
> >> activation was the better solution, for the hypertext use case.
> >>
> > There is another important reason why its more natural for w3m and lynx
> to not follow the link on click. That ie because the user might then want
> to press '.' to open the underlying link in an external graphical browser
> like Firefox etc. At the moment if there is a link surrounded by other
> links on all of N, E, S, W directions then it is impossible to select it
> and press '.' to open in an external viewer. One is forced to press tab/
> arrow keys multiple times to first reach to that link and then press '.'.
> >
> >
>