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Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings"
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings" |
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Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:11:13 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> Some things that ought to change, but not until after 2.8.1 is
> released...
>
> Currently, as soon as you go to the INFO page ('='), temp files are
> immediately created to hold the "compile time settings" and "your
> lynx.cfg" pages. I think these should be created on demand. I also
I thought of that, but didn't know how (suggestions are welcome - I see you
are doing that here).
afaik, if I pass the info-page to Lynx, the related pages have to be
available.
> find it ugly that (in "advanced" user mode, or on the INFO page) these
> show temp file URLs.
>
> I'd like to suggest that Lynx adopt the Netscapism of "about:" URLs.
> These would be internal URLs, contents constructed on demand. Currently
> we have LYNXKEYMAP: as the back-end of the "K" KEYMAP command; and the
> above two pages. I propose these be changed to "about:compile",
> "about:lynx.cfg", and "about:keymap". We may later want to add other
> "about:" choices; and I may have forgotten others. It might also make
> sense to change ^H HISTORY and "V" VLINKS to "about:history" and
> "about:visited". I dunno.
ok - I'll look into this. (Right now I've switched to xterm because I've
both waiting for your input on NSL_FORK, and because I need a break from
Lynx and vile).
> Basically, it bugs me any time Lynx shows me a temp file name which is
> some detail of Lynx's internal implementation. I'd rather have it hide
> these all behind opaque internal URL names.
>
> If the "about:" name seems too derivative, we could use "lynx:" instead,
> i.e. "lynx:compile", "lynx:cfg", "lynx:keymap", etc.
sounds fine. I just hadn't thought about it that way.
> >Bela<
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- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", dickey, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings",
dickey <=
- lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", dickey, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/06
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/07
- Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings", dickey, 1998/10/07