[elinks-dev] Two Wishlist Items

[Jonas Fonseca]

Guarded Identity <esvl9003 at sneakemail.com> wrote Fri, Jul 07, 2006:
> Hi,

Hi Guarded Identity,

> I had two items (unrelated) that I thought I'd throw into your wishlist:
> 
> 1) It might be nice to be able to navigate web form fields with the Tab key.  
> I've just gotten really used to this feature in other browsers.

Yes, that would be a good idea. The hardest thing is probably finding a
good name for such an action, link-form-next or move-form-next ....

Note, that by default Tab will probably still be wired to switching
frames.

> 2) I install my applications in a very custom chroot environment with just 
> enough resources to install applications.  This allows me to make sure that 
> installations are all under /usr/local (that no rogue files are accidently 
> placed in a dangerous area).  My problem is that your Makefile seems to call 
> for some small amount of compilation during the installation.  My chroot is 
> just not set up with gcc.  I think compiling in the install phase is 
> needlessly unorthodox.  If this feature /does/ have some fancy benefit to 
> someone, can we set it up so that this late compilation can be disabled with 
> a configuration script?

I think this should be mostly sorted out in the current git repo thanks
to Witold.

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Jonas Fonseca