Re: [Lynx-dev] options pane quirks

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> Why is that the option "Show images (!)" setting cannot be
> saved to lynx.rc?

I don't recall the original discussion (why it was deemed unsuitable -
perhaps because it duplicates a setting in lynx.cfg).  But you should
(unless there's a table-error) be able to use the ENABLE_LYNXRC setting
in lynx.cfg to override this and make the options menu save that value.

> I tried "VERBOSE_IMAGES:FALSE", but it didn't have the
> effect I thought it should. But this seems to work:
> MAKE_PSEUDO_ALTS_FOR_INLINES:FALSE
>
> Not sure it will suppress all the annoying inliners my local newspaper
> puts up on it's WAP portal. Luckily ALT have little (?) use in WAP.
>
> Another quirk is that navigating/editing long lines in the pane is
> tricky, e.g. pressing one left-key too many in the "User-agent header"
> field throws me back in the page I came from ?!. Home/End works
> as expected. So should arrow-keys IMHO. i.e. stop at the left edge of
> an edit-field.

There was a long discussion before about the sticky-edit stuff.
(I wouldn't have done it this way, but don't want to half-rewrite it).

> All this on ver 2.8.6dev.5 (MingW/S-Lang). The cool thing is that
> I can scroll up/down with the mouse-wheel too (I found a S-Lang
> patch that emulates the mouse-wheel with 4 key-up/down events).
> And mouse-clicking on links works fine. Except the url should for
> clarity be momentarily highlighted *before* entering the href.

hmm - send a patch.

I've been bogged down in xterm, meaning to work on the options menu
(so it will look ok in Japanese, for example).  Perhaps I'll get that
done this weekend.  I spent a chunk of time last week finding that one
odd thing I noticed is an old bug (setting locale to UTF-8 and running
lynx -dump doesn't wrap any lines).

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