Re: lynx-dev configuration of pretty source view settings

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > > "pretty source view settings" take up nearly 100 lines and add 14
> >                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
> > they are similar to COLOR: settings which are in lynx.cfg already.
> > Unfortunately, they were implemented with different names (14 or so)
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > instead of parsing HTMLSRC with yet one more modifier,
> > e.g. two ':' as we have in COLOR:
> 
> You can say that again, but now I've been ticked off.  I tried to be
> polite and say "in the future."  Even MSIE isn't so dumb as to cram a
> "pretty source" feature in.  If you need that crap, why don't you all
> use an editor or word processor which does it better?  (Myself, I have
> MSIE set up to throw the source into WZEditor which colorizes all the
> tags to whatever specks you want.  Plus you've got the source in an
> editor so you can do something with it rather than just stare at it.)
> If you use the Win32 Lynx, you can do the same thing ('\' => 'e').  Even
> if you don't, you can still force a unique color on what you're looking
> for by evoking a '/'search (COLOR:7:).
>                                  ^(Now, THAT is sensible -- like you say.)
> Man that felt good.  Apologies.

 1) you'd better say about bad naming convention before 2.8.2 was
released.
 2) you are free to not use it and even to not compile support for it
 3) you are free to hack it in a sensible way
 4) IMO psrc mode is good not only for colorization, but also for providing 
    ability to activate any link in any html element. And as for IE - think of
    NS - it provides its own source viewer, and as I remember IE uses notepad
    as source viewer by default.
 5) If your lynx is compiled with color styles, please look into lynx.lss for
    configuring colors of things. Belive me, it was by far simpler to
   implement psrc mode in the way it is now (ie you have to specify tags that
   are emitted in internal html markup, possibly with 'class' specification, 
   and then define colors for classes)
 6) Since it's built into lynx, lynx will display source incrementally, rather
   than downloading entire file and than calling your favorite WZEditor. Seems
   your connection is very fast (since you sent 500K letter and didn't notice
   delay), but others still use slow dialup connections.

PS: I agree that naming convention like HTMLSRC:<syntax item>:...
 as Leonid suggests would be better, but I won't implement it since 2.8.2 was
 released.

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad