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

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> > USING THE COMMAND LINE SWITCH, IT SHOULD BE OFF.  Quoting from .lynxrc:
> >> A value of "on" will set positioning to the left as the default
> >> while a value of "off" will set 'hiding' of the cursor.
> >> The default can be overridden via the -show_cursor command line toggle.
> > 
> > These darn instructions are confusing, but what they're saying is
> > that the default is "on", and that "-show_cursor" zaps the default,
> > i.e., makes it "off."

Just so that my opinion on this whole mess is not lost, basically I'd
like to be counted among Doug's camp, i.e., the function that is there
now is fine and there is absolutely no need to change it.  If anything
is to be changed, it is the wording of the explanation in .lynxrc, and
nothing else.

> no, people shouldn't have to study the fine print in the instructions
> to find out that Lynx does something utterly counter-intuitive.

I do not agree that it is either "fine print" or "counter-intuitive".
The wording of the explanation is perhaps awkward, especially the "as
the default" is positioned poorly.  Perhaps break into two statements:
what the default is, and what the option switch does to the default.  I
also feel, counter I think to what Doug thought, that the word "toggle"
is misleading, since it works only one way, to turn off.

__Henry