Re: cleaning a field in lynx

Hi,
Thanks for the birthday wish.
I do not recall complaining about your method.
I simply spoke to chime's statement that the had to backspace over 
characters when he had an option  to clear the field.
  Indeed, as should be the case with personal computing we have very 
different  organizational methods..and ways to enjoy SNL!
I prefer it, on Saturday night,  on my television as unfolding to the 
audience, as created.
YOu prefer to download everything later.
for  my computer, your file names would not work at all.
I applaud that you can find things with file names of that sort.
Its an innovative solution for what you do with content, just as my 
solution  allows what I personally require.

best,
Kare



On Sun, 23 Aug 2026, rbell--- via Lynx-dev wrote:

>
> 	Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'with my birthday in the middle.'
> 	Harry Birthday!
>
> 	'control u or control k creating an empty field for a filename
> to be saved that I will remember.  Does that make more sense?
> 	'The field is empty so you can provide the file name you
> actually want, instead of extra characters.'
> 	I want to turn 20260822_wesat_week_in_politics_canada_talks_collapse_u.s._economic_d-day_record_national_debt.mp3?t=progseg&e=nx-s1-5779790&p=7&seg=1&d=272&size=4356015&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer
> into 20260822_wesat_week_in_politics_canada_talks_collapse_u.s._economic_d-day_record_national_debt.mp3
> 	If I use ctrl-u I have to key in
> 20260822_wesat_week_in_politics_canada_talks_collapse_u.s._economic_d-day_record_national_debt.mp3
> I don't want to do that.  That's what my tactic avoids.  I don't want
> to think up a name, key it in.
>
> 	Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'I can personally think of no universe
> where I would simply download a bunch of files and work through them
> later...'
> 	That's you.  I download all segments of 'All Things
> Considered' (etc.).  When I watched 'Saturday night live' I downloaded
> all segments with yt-dlp, decided which to watch, which is now none,
> but that's me.  Outside of audio and video media I often download HTML
> and other text files that have spaces or metacharacters or non-ASCII
> characters in their names.  I have automated 'fixing' those.  I don't
> say you should do any of those things.  I don't understand your
> complaint that others might.
>
> russell bell
>
>