Re: LYNX-DEV SHOW_CURSOR

[Laura Eaves]

> Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:03:56 +0800
> From: address@hidden (Dan Strychalski)
>...
> Laura Eaves (address@hidden) wrote --
> > As far as I can tell, the only people who would care where the cursor is
> > placed are visually impaired users using software that tracks the cursor.
>
> Not so. Between a lousy VT-100 emulation, a cursor blink killer that's
> fighting IBM's hardware design with every clock tick, and a Chinese
> system that simulates the DOS screen in graphics mode, I would have
> serious difficulty using Lynx if it didn't have `-show_cursor'.

Well, I'm not familiar with your setup, but even when SHOW_CURSOR is off,
the cursor jumps to text entry fields.  What does your system do then?
How is that different from putting the cursor at the current link in other
cases, instead of the lower right of the screen?
Do you kow if your lynx is compiled/configured with SHOW_CURSOR TRUE or FALSE?
(The command line option only toggles it.  You may be turning it on instead of
off.)

Anyway, just curious.
You're apparently using -show_cursor, so there must be a problem.  I'm just
wondering what the problem is.
Thanks in advance.
--le

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