[elinks-dev] Sponsor development of the key motion.

[Jonas Fonseca]

Ligesh <myself at ligesh.com> wrote Fri, Aug 10, 2007:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>   I had requested a specific 2 dimensional keyboard motion some time back. It was like this: the up/down arrows will move straight up and down, and will stop on a line that contains a link anywhere on that line. The up/down arrows will not move right/left at all. They will just stop on a line which contains the link anywhere, even if the exact location of the cursor does not have a link.

This should be something like the move-cursor-* actions, right?

Try putting this in your elinks.conf and test:

	bind "main" "up" = "move-cursor-up"
	bind "main" "down" = "move-cursor-down"

>   The right-left would of course move along the links on a single line. The right-left would also wrap-around, so that after the farthest right link, the right button will wrap to the left most link on the left line. But up/down moves only straight.

	bind "main" "right" = "move-link-right"
	bind "main" "left" = "move-link-left"

Almost does what, I think, you want. Unfortunately, it jumps to
a random link sometimes. I've never used this feature and the
code is a bit "hairy".

>   I would like to know if I can sponsor this feature.

Maybe you could test the patch below, which makes the horizontal
navigation "kind-of" work when browsing local directories and could
serve as a start.

diff --git a/src/viewer/text/link.c b/src/viewer/text/link.c
index 175a0ff..715e690 100644
--- a/src/viewer/text/link.c
+++ b/src/viewer/text/link.c
@@ -615,14 +615,17 @@ next_link_in_dir(struct document_view *doc_view, int dir_x, int dir_y)
 	vs = doc_view->vs;
 
 	link = get_current_link(doc_view);
-	if (!link) return 0;
+	if (link) {
+		/* Find the link's "bounding box" coordinates. */
 
-	/* Find the link's "bounding box" coordinates. */
+		get_link_x_bounds(link, -1, &min_x, &max_x);
 
-	get_link_x_bounds(link, -1, &min_x, &max_x);
-
-	min_y = link->points[0].y;
-	max_y = link->points[link->npoints - 1].y;
+		min_y = link->points[0].y;
+		max_y = link->points[link->npoints - 1].y;
+	} else {
+		min_x = max_x = doc_view->session->tab->x - doc_view->box.x;
+		min_y = max_y = doc_view->session->tab->y - doc_view->box.y;
+	}
 
 	/* Now go from the bounding box edge in the appropriate
 	 * direction and find the nearest link. */

-- 
Jonas Fonseca