Re: lynx-dev color

[dickey]

> 
> > > > (slang doesn't support enough of the curses interface to simply slide  
> > > > it into place, and no one seems to have time/inclination to hack up  
> > > > lynx to make slang do that).  
>  
> As far as I remember, I got colour styles working fine with slang. 
> *shrug*  Perhaps that was code that never got entered into the mainstream 
> Lynx. 
I didn't see that in Klaus' initial set of diffs (perhaps he chopped those
out).
  
> > > Where is the dependency on the parser?  
> > the dependency is spread around - relies on side-effects.  I disentangled 
> > some stuff, but it's relying on the differences in the two parsers between 
> > SGML_EMPTY and SGML_MIXED (that's from my notes - it's been two months 
> > so I don't remember all of the details). 
>  
> Because things like <li> and <p> were marked as SGML_EMPTY, so setting 
> a style for those had the style turned off straight away, rendering it 
> useless.  *shrugx2*   
worse than useless - some of the color transitions end up missing, so
you'll see (when testing, for example, in dired mode) that the screen
will get repainted with no colors, but as you move the cursor around
the current line will leave a trail of corrected color.

(I spent some time looking at this, but didn't see a good place to fix it).

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