Re: Following up on a Feature Suggestion?

--01iV3irV5buxJiW/
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 02:01:47AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote in
>  <[email protected]>:
>  |On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Chime Hart wrote:
>  |> Hi All: An only mention of this which I found in searching was my \
>  |> own 2022=20
>  |> post. I am `certainly hoping-and-requesting this option can be added \
>  |> to LYNX,=20
>  |> as I use a Capital C to change directories `quite a number of times d=
aily
>  |> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2022-04/msg00000.html
>  |> Since I am only a user-and-not a programmer, I have no idea if it \
>  |> is possible=20
>  |> to ajust this, or if there are local steps I can take on this end? \
>  |> Thanks so=20
>  |> much in advance
>  |
>  |tab-completion for the directory-names would require programming work,
>  |as mentioned in
>  |
>  |https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-01/msg00010.html
>=20
> There is a "rlwrap" thing that can be used to enwrap many programs
> with the readline library.  I would not know in how far this
> works for a program that fully manages the terminal (lynx here
> links against ncurses), but once a user pointed another user who
> asked for line editor capabilities of the MUA i maintain to that;

rlwrap can help with command-history (actually not with lynx, because
it already does _that_), but not with tab-completion (because the
relevant data isn't available to rlwrap).

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

--01iV3irV5buxJiW/
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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=KW0O
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--01iV3irV5buxJiW/--