[quoted lines by Matthew Campbell on December 4, 2000, at 07:42]
>OK, so should the user type in the bookmark name when he/she wants to go
>there? In that case, I'm guessing the command line to start up TRPlayer
>and go to a bookmark would look like this:
>
>trplayer -g "East Coast"
>
>Or should both the category and the name be specified, like this:
>
>trplayer -g "Family Radio/East Coast"
Although far from perfect, my suggestion is as follows. Since there's nothing
preventing the title from having a slash (or any other character) in it, it'd
probably be better, when -g is used, to allow an optional second parameter
which would be the category. If not specified, select the first category in
which the title appears. Even with multiple categories, the titles will
probably be mostly unique anyway. They're used to create screen menus. Listing
the bookmarks should probably also be category-based, or, at least,
category-influenced.
>I figured it would be best to minimize the amount of typing needed to get
>there.
You could, at the risk of being non-standard, introduce a "Shortcut" variable
for this. If you just use single characters, then, while reducing typing, the
need for screen reviewing will be significantly increased.
Even with full names, the user could, of course, just use single letter names.
Another thing you might try is allowing unambiguous truncations of the full
names. This way, if the user carefully picks the names, single letters will
work anyway.
>I think I'll pipe it to a pager like more or less.
The standard (which you probably know already) is to use whatever $PAGER is set
to, and, if it's either unset or null, to use "more".
>Speakup doesn't
>support the shift-pageup feature.
That's too bad. It's incredibly useful.
Another way of scrolling bacdkward is to use screen. If, within a screen
session, one enters ctrl-A followed by a left bracket, copy mode is entered. In
this mode, one can enter vi-like commands to move around within the session's
buffer.
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