Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly

[Vlad Harchev]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> >   BTW, what are other bugs in lss code - as a user, I don't see any
> >  incorrect?
> 
> How long have you been using it?  I am surprised you give it such
> a high rating...  Color changes often get lost if the should apply
> to several lines, especially when there are lots of nested tags.
> Sometimes colors on a page depend on what pages you have viewed
> before, apparently in an arbitrary manner; a page may look differently
> after ^L.

    I'm using it for 5 months. Most time I use lynx to browse files that
were converted from sgml or texinfo - such files are written by hand, so
they don't contain deeply nested tags. For this set of files, I consider
lynx with lss support much more visually attractive than without.

> Maybe you don't happen to see this because of the lynx.lss file you 
>are using.  If you have only few different styles, you shouldn't
> see these effects much.  Try to use the distributed file.
> 
> [ ... ] 
> 
> There are several makefiles and scripts for various systems where
> this should also be added.
> 
> Unfortunately this discourages introducing new source files, which is
> probably one reason why some existing ones grow beyond a reasonable
> size...
> 
> In this *particular* case, I don't know whether it's worth starting
> a new source file, since most of the change is adding to GridText.c
> anyway.
> 
>    Klaus
> 
   Sorry about that. If you (developers of lynx) insist, I can rewrite the
 patch this way. And please, mail me (or in mailing list) about patches
I'm sending - whether they are accepted or not, rather than silently
rejecting.
  I can rewrite previous commandline patch the way you and I feel it
 useful.
  
 And one more question:
   When lynx-2.8.2 will be released?  
 I'm planning to try to write some other things  - how much time do I
 have?
 
 Best regards,
 -Vlad