Re: lynx-dev Request for Comment: partial display and refresh

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
> 
> > One thing to check: does this also occur when the first screen of
> > the page doesn't have any links - for example when it is text/plain
> > not text/html?  If not, it probably has something to do with the refresh()
> > done in highlight().
> 
> It happens when I say
> lynx /tmp/file.txt
> and file.txt is not html - I assume that's the same condition you are
> describing.

Yes.

> >Just to be sure: you have FANCY_CURSES defined, and are not using
> >-enable_scrollback, and your display character set is not UTF-8,
> >right?
> 
> How can I tell these things?  I don't specifically set enable_scrollback.

Then you don't.

> I use ncurses, so I assume that sets FANCY_CURSES.  

Yes it should, especially if you are seeing colors.  You could check in
lynx_cfg.h or by following the "compile time settings" link from a '=' page.

> I am not intentionally
> setting UTF-8. Is there something I can generate that will tell you
> more about my configuration to help?

That answers my questions - I was just wildly guessing anyway.

I don't seem to see the same effect, with either a slang or a solor style
version of 2.8.1rel.2.

   Klaus