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Re: lynx-dev ENABLE_SCROLLBACK now considered harmful (by me)


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: lynx-dev ENABLE_SCROLLBACK now considered harmful (by me)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:40:29 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Michael Warner wrote:

> It used to be that ENABLE'ing_SCROLLBACK in lynx.cfg did exactly
> nothing, but when I tried it on a whim with dev10, any page of
> more than one screen (45 lines, for me) that was not from cache
> (either lynx's or a proxy server running squid) only displayed
> the title line, the text of the first link on the screen, and the
> status line.  Refreshing the screen or paging down cleared the
> problem for that page.
> 
> I don't suppose this even rises to the level of a nit, since
> scrollback doesn't work for me in the first place, but it might
> be worth a line in lynx.cfg - "Warning: enabling may cause
> display problems".  It had me bewildered for a while, anyway.

Or, we might try to locate the problem and fix it...

> I'm using the same terminal emulator (TeraTerm) and curses lib
> (Slang) as I have been forever, so I guess it's some sort of
> three-way conflict between the terminal, SCROLLBACK, and (maybe?)
> partial-display.

Could you test what happens if you disable partial display, and/or
change PARTIAL_THRES?

   Klaus


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