lynx-dev current STARTFILE default (was: lynx2.8.2dev.23)

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Philip Webb wrote: 
> >  
> > > 990423 Thomas Dickey wrote: 
> > > > * change the STARTFILE description in lynx.cfg to offer the user's home 
> > > >   directory as an alternative to lynx.browser.org (amended this to 
> > > > reflect 
> > > >   consensus that l.b.o should be the default -TD) - PW 
> > > ...  
> > > subject to further discussion via lynx-dev, 
> > > i hope my version as above will be restored in dev.25 . 
> >  
> > I haven't gone back through the archive to confirm, but my 
> > recollection is, indeed, that the consensus was to leave lbo as the 
> > default, with the home directory as the alternative. I remember lots 
> > of discussion about this. I hope my memory isn't playing tricks on me. 
> > I don't believe that the original patch was generally accepted as is. 
> 
> yes - that was my impression.  (I went through the whole thread - we can
> start a new one...)

FWIW, the current dev.24 wording and default settings seem fine to me.

For consistency,  file://localhost/~/ should also be mentioned in
userdefs.h as an alternative, commented out.  But since that's only
the default-of-defaults, it's not really that important.

   Klaus