Re: [Lynx-dev] ot: w3m question?

[Jude DaShiell]

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Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Travis Siegel wrote:

> Hah.  I ran into a completely different error.  I went to a page that requires
> a password to access the page.  It actually needs a login (username and
> password), but when I did that with w3m, it core dumped, telling me "wrong
> data start/end pair"
>
> No clud what that means, but there's obviously problems with login /password
> fields.  Maybe that's what you're experiencing. <shrug>
>
> Like I said, never used the program before just now to test your issue.
>
>
> On 9/16/2022 11:20 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Interestingly enough I tried it with google first, hitting entre on  the
> > spot where the search box should be, which worked.
> > However, my actual goal which is providing a password on a secure site,
> > failed to open the password entry field.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >
> >> From what I read, the form entry has first to be selected before it can be
> >> edited.  Now, how in w3m you locate controls with text and without color
> >> is I think an accessibility problem of w3m.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> >> defense of liberty:
> >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >>
> >>> Typing enter on a form entry that's an edit box does not get focus changed
> >>> to edit mode in w3m with the version of w3m running on my machine.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> >>> defense of liberty:
> >>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >>>
> >>> .
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Haven't used w3m for a while, but when I did if memory serves hitting
> >>>> enter on the place where the text box is supposed to appear got me into
> >>>> editing that text box.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> >>>> defense of liberty:
> >>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >>>>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>> only asking because the browser has been referenced when others
> >>>>> encountered
> >>>>> lynx  situations.
> >>>>> Is there a specific command to make text boxes appear, so one can type
> >>>>> in
> >>>>> them?
> >>>>> consider doing a search as an example, although that is not my goal.
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Karen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>