Re: lynx-dev dev.28 and FORMS_OPTIONS problems

[dickey]

> 
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> (quoting me) 
> > > I am not sure that the forms-based option menu is ready for the 2.8.1  
> > > release.  
> > so far I think it's ok as 'experimental' (I'm using it). 
>  
> Sorry, I should have been more clear. I think that Leonid recently 
> asked if anyone objected to the forms-based option being the default. 
> What I meant to say is that I think that we need to debug it more 
> before making it the default. The section that bothers me the most 
> is the multi-bookmark section, since that has been hard for many 
> new users to configure with the old option menu. It seems much more 
> difficult with the forms-based option menu. In general, I like the 
> concept of the forms-based option menu. 
I understood that - but didn't have a list of pros/cons for changing
the default in the configure script.  I'm not using the multi-bookmark
code, for example, having only noted that it would make the forms processing
a lot simpler if only one variable recorded the state (I suppose that in
untangling it, I'd find out more about the feature & maybe use it ;-).

>                               Doug 
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> Doug Kaufman 
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