[elinks-users] editing form fields with lua

[Yan Seiner]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Is it possible to hook into the form fields to do some editing with 
>> lua?  I need to intercept keystrokes and modify the values in the fields.
>>     
>
> Not at the moment.  The most up-to-date documentation is here:
> http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=elinks.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=doc/lua-scripting.txt
>   
Hmmm... On talking this over with my co-workers, would it be possible to 
provide these hooks?

Basically, we need to make these changes to the way elinks operates:

1.  Enter edit mode automatically as soon as you enter a form field 
(i.e. without pressing Enter)
2.  bring up a custom editor that has some metaknowledge about the 
field.  So we would need to know either some custom attributes of the 
field, or the name.
3.  We would submit and reload the form on exiting the custom editor.

Is there any documentation of the input system that would allow us to 
make these changes?

--Yan