Community Development Notes for Version 5.20 - 2025-03-16

Some improvements to the [more?] prompt
* first off, new menu '/? more' goes into detail of what you can do here
What's new at the [more?] prompt:
* ? shows summary of commands you can use
* 0 jumps to start of text
* 1-9 jumps to approx. 10% to 90% into the text
* S, Save for later.  This saves a 'bookmark', explained below.

Not to be confused with the bookmarks to gopher locations, in this case hitting 'S' at the more prompt saves (to the database) a) the full text, b) approx. location where you were in the text (percentage), and c) what the text color was.

When you log in again you'll see something like:
You have a saved bookmark, continue reading?  
If you answer yes then you'll pick up where you left off.  You can also get to this using the '/bookmark' command from the chat rooms.

Caviets:
* I don't know that I'm spelling Caviet correctly and too lazy to look it up.
* You can only have one 'save for later' so if you save a 2nd one it overwrites your first.
* Although you can continue reading the text the system won't remember how you got to it.  For example let's say you're on a gopher site, found a very long but interesting document, you want to read it but not all at once.  You can (S)ave for later, and continue reading later.  But if you want to remember the gopher site itself you'll need to bookmark that separatly using Gopher Bookmarks.

This feature probably isn't all that useful for most purposes but I was playing around on gopher yesterday on a DOS machine and found an interesting document but it's huge, after about 20 minutes of reading I was only about 10% done. 

So in cases like this you can (S)ave for later, then come back and read some more, then (S)ave for later again which will overwrite the old bookmark with the new (same text, different percentage), and gradually work your way through it.
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