Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.1pre.9

[Philip Webb]

981010 i wrote:
> there's one small oversight between the two of us:
> you need to update the Options Help file for next time:
> its  www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/option_help.html .
 
there's one remaining problem in that file: Line Edit Style.

someone recalled:
> IIRC that was a stub, a piece of program structure
> that was put in the program early on with the idea
> that people might want to add an alternate line edit mode.
> Does anybody here have any memory of this option being live,
> and what it did for you?  Look in src/LYEditmap.c.

LP suggested:
> In this certain case, since any new key maps may be available
> only after changing the code in src/LYEditmap.c and recompiling,
> we should probably move the text on Edit Style from option_help.html
> directly to comments inside src/LYEditmap.c,
> and comment out the choise in old-style Options Menu.

this seems to make good sense:
it's another cobweb we need to clean up.
are there any objections?  is it difficult?  should i try?

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