Re: lynx-dev (forw) Lynx on VGA notebook

[Heather Stern]

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>> i am using your latest version of lynx on a 486 notebook under 
>> windows 95, with a monochrome vga screen.
>> The problem I have is that the links do not highlight in any way, so 
>> I cannot tell which line i am on.

Doug Kaufman wrote:
> This sounds as if the colors chosen for highlighting links are
> interpreted by the monochrome screen the same as the normal links.
> There are three things to try. 
  > The first would be to go to the option screen and try both the 
    color=on and color=off settings. Color=off is likely to work. 
  > The second would be to change the default colors in lynx.cfg. 
    These settings are toward the end of lynx.cfg. Normal links are 
    color #1; The selected link is color #6. Try different combinations. 
> I suspect that setting color 6 to white:black will work.
> The line should be as follows:
> COLOR:6:white:black

Try blue as a background - on monochrome PCs that I recall working 
with in my younger days, this mapped to underline, which enjoyably
enough would be exactly what most people expect of hotlinks.

> The third thing to try is to set lynx to show the cursor at the
> selected link. To do this set SHOW_CURSOR to TRUE in lynx.cfg, invoke
> lynx as "lynx -show_cursor", or change the setting in the options
> menu, then save your options to the lynx.rc file.
>                                  Doug

Yeah, that'd work too :)

Good luck
* Heather