Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX reads "off" from .lynxrc set_cursor=on

[T.E.Dickey]

> 980219 various people discussed & TD summarised:
> > > It is an unobvious behavior that, depending on the value of userdefs.h,
> > > lynx.cfg and user's lynx.rc, setting some command switches to `on'
> > > may mean 'turn on the feature' and may, for the next user, mean
> > > 'turn off the feature'. -- (aka 'hostile' as Al notes)
> > > It seems to me, from the point of view of someone trying to explain
> > > how to use lynx to others, that a more consistent view would be
> > > to always have `on' mean 'turn this option on'
> > > & `off' mean 'turn this option off'. 
> > that would be nice (2.9?).
> 
> this is very bad behaviour by Lynx, discussed once before (i think).
> `on' should mean `on' & `off' should mean `off', ALWAYS.
> we don't need special warning messages, tho' they might be nice.
> please let's fix it now, not in some future 2-x
> (i sympathise with Tom's desire to get 2-8 finished, but ... (smile)).
I'll look at the code & think about it (am right now on other programs).
It may be simple, maybe not (there's a lot of repetitive code in Lynx
that makes details like this unnecessarily complex - if it's in that
category I'm not too interested in it).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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