Re: Net Tools

[joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)]

Tero Sand said....

>Maybe I have an overactive imagination, but just using Lynx and
>extrapolating from that knocked by socks off. :-)

The mind is an amazing thing, in that it hears what it wants to hear, and
sees what it wants to see. When you (Tero) emailed me a few weeks ago about
Lynx, maybe I was pre-occupied or thinking of other things or just wasn't
ready.

But, I must have been up until 2AM last night, discovering and examining
wondrous and exciting things on the net using Lynx.

Something has happened to me in the past few days, ever since seeing Mosaic
and trying Lynx, that gives me a whole new perspective on the Internet, and
gives me a whole new appreciation of the net. If I was merely excited about
the Internet a week ago, I'm simply ecsatic about it now. With Lynx, I'm
now cruising the highways and byways of the net...at nearly 200 miles per
hour <g>.

For the time being, I will be more than content to use Lynx. It's the
second most amazing net tool in existance. I strongly urge anyone that
hasn't experienced Lynx yet to give it a try.

The "problem" I had with ProTerm was exactly what you said...I had to go to
ProTerm's Preferences menu and change the 'reverse' and 'underline'
display to inverse (menu Misc/Preferences/More). The way I had it set up
before, the arrow keys were working; I just couldn't see the inverse links.
Now, following your suggestion, the links are not in inverse until I use
the down arrow key, but each link is inversed as I scroll down.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to set up ProTerm so that all the links are
inversed as the text scrolls across my screen, but I'd also like to be able
to see where my arrow keys land me. Is it possible, using the same ProTerm
preferences menu, to somehow set other options so that Lynx looks/works
just a little bit better?

One last thing that amazes me is that folks here in c.s.a2 haven't been
talking about Lynx. Something as wonderful and incredible as Lynx is
something that all of us should be using. I'd like to make a c.s.a2
proposal...if you discover something on the net that knocks your socks off,
please tell the rest of us about it here.

And, if *you* haven't yet tried Lynx, please try it out today. It'll open
new net doors for you, as it has for me. Who knows...it might even change
your life?

Joe Kohn
Publisher, Shareware Solutions II