Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/w3m
Tags: patch
Hi there.
I am very used to the semantic -- which is standard in the U.S. as far as I
know, that SHIFT-TAB means "move backward one tab stop". As opposed to
unshifted TAB, which moves forward. This has been adapted to widget
selection in GUIs like GTK+ and Qt. You can rotate through the available
widgets without using the mouse. TAB moves you forward and SHIFT-TAB moves
you backwards.
When I use w3m I find it frustrating that TAB moves forward through the
available links, but SHIFT-TAB doesn't move backwards.
The obvious solution, "keymap S-TAB PREV_LINK", doesn't work because
SHIFT-TAB is not an ordinary ASCII character but a terminal control
sequence. Terminfo refers to it as "cbt" ("back tab").
You have to say, in your $HOME/.w3m/keymap file:
keymap ^[[Z PREV_LINK
You can type the ^[ literally, without fancy quoting tricks -- w3m's key
binding parser will understand it to mean ESC.
I am attaching a patch that updates the default keybinding accordingly.
There's only one problem: the w3mhelp.cgi script doesn't seem to notice
that the sequence is bound, and yet it works anyway. This may be a bug in
whatever code lists all key bindings for a given function.
The former approach, using a keymap file, does not tickle this bug in the
w3mhelp CGI script.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-powerpc-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgc1c2 1:6.6-2 conservative garbage collector for
ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-21 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7g-5 SSL shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages w3m recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20050804 Common CA Certificates PEM files
-- no debconf information
--- w3m-0.5.1.debian/keybind.c 2002-12-12 22:02:03.000000000 -0500
+++ w3m-0.5.1/keybind.c 2006-01-31 21:20:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
/* P Q R S T U V W */
nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd,
/* X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ */
- nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd,
+ nulcmd, nulcmd, prevA, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd,
/* ` a b c d e f g */
nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd, nulcmd,
/* h i j k l m n o */
