That is definitely the option I was speaking of. The reason I mentioned it is whoever is having trouble with their cursor not tracking the high lighting probably has that turned on. I am not sure if it will be helpful but here is a link to my elinks.conf file folks can download if they like. It goes in the .elinks directory of your home directory. https://reisers.ca/elinks.conf Kirk On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Al Sten-Clanton wrote: > Hi, Kirk and others. > > Not finding block-cursor on the elinks man page, I did a yahoo search (having > first done a google search) and found this at > <http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch08.html> > > Block cursor > > Move cursor to the bottom right corner when done drawing, if possible. This > is particularly useful when we have a block cursor, so that text colors are > displayed correctly. If you are using a screen reader you do not want to > enable this since the cursor is strategically positioned near relevant text > of selected dialog elements. > > This boolean option is off by default. > > This, then, does not look like a replacement for the --show_cursor or > --show-cursor (I forget which) I used with lynx and you've used in elinks. I > thought I'd pass this along, especially in case I got tripped up by the > terminology and there is indeed something relevant. > > Al > On 02/08/2013 05:29 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote: >> Very odd, you are right of course. I believe they must have changed >> the flag name at some point. I've had it set so long that I never >> noticed. The current feature which seems to control that behaviour is >> block_cursor which you will find under terminal > linux > >> block_cursor. Set that to zero in the edit pain which you need to tab >> over one to reach from the options screen once you get there. >> >> good luck. >> Kirk >> >> >> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote: >> >>> I've used that with lynx, but trying it last night with elinks got me an >>> error message. I also didn't find it mentioned on the man page. Am I >>> missing something? Thanks! >>> >>> Al >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of >>> Kirk >>> Reiser >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:12 AM >>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> Subject: Re: speakup and e-links >>> >>> Hi There is an option show-cursor which you need to turn on so that the >>> cursor will follow the links as you up and down arrow through the >>> page. You >>> can turn it on before entering elinks with -show-cursor and then turn >>> it on >>> permanently inside elinks with the 'o' keystroke to go into the >>> configuration system. The configuration system is a little confusing >>> until >>> you become familiar with it. You hit the spacebar to expand menu options >>> and unexpand them the same way. You use the tab key to move through your >>> various menu options like add, delete, edit, search etc. >>> >>> You may find numbering useful. I do not. I find the cursor works >>> just fine >>> for moving through the links on a page. I have a lot of different >>> options >>> set but they are not to satisfy speakup just satisfy my particular >>> preferences. I've never turned on highlight tracking but some may >>> find that >>> useful. Elinks is my main web browser or has been until we started >>> writing >>> wb. It is a fine browser for what it does. >>> >>> Kirk >>> >>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Rob Hudson wrote: >>> >>>> Documentation on these two together is pretty sparse. Any tips on >>>> settings >>> in speakup and e-links to make them work better together? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Well that's it then, colour me gone! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Well that's it then, colour me gone!
