Re: lynx-dev horizontal scrolling stuff

[Bela Lubkin]

David Woolley wrote:

> > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, David Combs wrote:
> > >re horizontal scrolling: setting the width.
> > >
> > >FOR SURE it should be run-time, and easily switchable.
> > 
> > I realize we're talking about a nonexistant feature (some year after I 
> > become a billionaire I should get the Lynx source and look at it)..
> 
> David is a power user of Lynx without the ability to recompile.  That means
> he produces an automatic request for run time configuration when any feature
> is proposed without run time configuration being explicitly specified.

and I work for a commericla Unix company which ships Lynx binaries to
its users.  I also am strongly in favor of everything possible being
runtime configurable.

If it's runtime configurable, then a SCO user, or a Debian Linux user,
or a DOS user who downloads one of the lynx-dev-built DOS distributions,
can change those features.  Otherwise you have to lead them through
compiling from source (potentially including: obtaining a compiler,
making it work, obtaining libraries, configuring other options they
haven't got a clue about, etc.)  In many cases it's much better for
someone to start from an existing, working binary, and just change an
option.

>Bela<