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Re: lynx-dev question about -dump
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Bela Lubkin |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev question about -dump |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 03:34:26 -0700 |
Philip Webb wrote:
> 980702 Bela Lubkin wrote:
> > Philip Webb wrote:
> >> i edited .lynxrc to remove link numbers temporarily,
> >> did restart (in case) & ran lynx28 -dump http://foo >test.d1 ,
> >> but the links in test.d1 were STILL numbered!
> >> when i simply started Lynx with lynx28 , however, they weren't!
> >> presumably, .lynxrc alters settings only in interactive mode,
> >> whence the switch -number_links to force link numbering,
> >> tho' there's no corresponding -numbers_as_arrows to suppress them.
> > You can use -number_links=0 to turn it off,
> > in which case you *might* get numbers_as_arrows behavior.
>
> 2-8pre.2 accepted -number_links=0 , but still numbered the links!
> i always want links numbered, but isn't this a small bug/misbehaviour
> for those who for some reason don't?
I was speaking about a feature that dates to about 2.8.1pre.9 -- long
after 2.8pre.2. But then, I see that it still doesn't work!
Option parsing changed a bunch between 2.8pre.2 and now. With 2.8pre.2,
"-number_links=0" was interpreted as "-number_links" (the "=0" was
garbage and got ignored).
Starting somewhere in the 2.8.1dev series, "-option=0" is supposed to
turn off that option. I thought I'd tested it and it worked on
"-number_links". But now I find that it doesn't. Sigh.
Actually, it *does* work if number_links is turned *off* in your
.lynxrc. Then the following occurs:
lynx http://something
... no numbers
lynx -number_links http://something
... numbers
lynx -number_links -number_links http://something
... numbers
lynx -number_links -number_links=0 http://something
... no numbers
So we can see that the "=0" thing works. It fails to override .lynxrc
because the flag is advisory -- it only tells Lynx to turn on
number_links, not to turn it off.
All the option parsing needs work.
>Bela<