Input line in lookup page

all at abouthugo.de all at abouthugo.de
Sat Jul 19 13:24:01 CEST 2003


SeqFans, Neil,

here are two suggestions for the input line in the
(simple) lookup page:

1) Remove the blanks in
"1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 23, 47, 106, 235"
i.e. -> "1,2,3,6,11,23,47,106,235"
In MS IE6 it is possible to mark the line with
embedded blanks with a triple mouseclick,
whereas in my (outdated ;-) Netscape 4.73 the
only way to mark the line is to drag the mouse
with left button pressed over the whole line.
(or put cursor at end and use backspace to erase
line). For an example line without blanks marking
with double click works on both browsers.

Input of sequence terms most often is done by
cut and paste and "left double click",
"right click", "select paste from dropdown menu"
seems the fastest possible way to input data.

2) A more clever recognition of input of
sequence numbers would be convenient.
If the input line starts with an "A" or "a"
followed by a digit string
and "sequence" is selected then
always a lookup of the sequence number should
be performed. Currently the leading "A" is
removed and a word (or number?) search is performed for the remaining
string.
E.g. A11111 finds ~30 seqs (all containing the
term 11111, whereas a011111 gives no match.
The most probable result, sequence A011111
(Decimal expansion of 5th root of 26)
is not found.

Any comments are welcome.

Hugo Pfoertner





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