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Re: lynx-dev options unification
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev options unification |
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 05:35:09 -0400 (EDT) |
981006 several people discussed unifying options etc:
> Currently, options can be set in many different venues:
> in the source; with command-line flags; in a lynx.cfg file;
> in a .lynxrc; interactively from one of the two options menus.
> What a mess! -- That's for sure! And confusing, to say the least.
heartily agreed! it's high time we tackled this job as a 2-8-2 priority.
> Would it be possible to do away completely with lynx.cfg?
> Keep the mechanism in the code only for backward compatibility
at some point, we have to bite the bullet on some backward compatibilities
which are too much trouble to preserve & help very few people,
but that's a side-issue for this discussion.
for practical use today, we need 2 levels of options:
(1) things all users should be able to change,
which should appear in the Options Form
& be stored in a single cfg/rc file;
(2) security concerns, which would freeze out many options
& can probably be gathered under a single switch -anonymous ,
which a sysadmin can set if s/he has anonymous users.
there may also be (3) non-security features a sysadmin might like to set,
especially -blind , when we have decided which features to group there;
users would not, however, be prohibited from changing these via (1).
we might have -smallimage , if we can decide how to do that,
which might restrict user choices in some ways.
can we make (2 3) configure switches, dropping userdefs.h ,
or do we have to separate these 2 levels?
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Re: lynx-dev options unification, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/07
Re: lynx-dev options unification, Lloyd G. Rasmussen, 1998/10/07
Re: lynx-dev options unification, David Combs, 1998/10/10