lynx-dev flickering upon first bookmark display Re: dev.16 patch 3 - HTMIME.c, HTTP.c redirection

[mattack]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>5-Dec-99 06:14 Klaus Weide wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> of the TRST 'flicker'.  Also at least the title line always gets
>> rewritten.  Also some links get repainted anyway (form fields only?),
>> in UTF-8 and/or CJK mode things may get repainted anyway, maybe there
>> are some other conditions.  I didn't check all the details for this...
>> Avoiding unnecessary screen repainting is A Good Thing if Lynx is run
>> remotely, although you won't notice the difference if Lynx is running
>> on a local machine.
>
>I use Lynx remotely every day, I have not seen a problem here, perhaps
>display optimized by ncurses (obsolete 1.9.9e one). [And I have not

I'm not really following this discussion, so this is off topic.. but
the one case of flicker that *really* gets to me that I unsuccessfully tried
to figure out way back when when I was actually looking at the lynx code
(for that bookmark file manipulation code I hope to get back to some decade)
was this:

I start up with my bookmark file as my start page, and I have multi-bookmarks
turned on.

The bookmark file draws, THEN the whole screen redraws with:
Description: Default Bookmark File
   Filepath: lynx_bookmarks.html

inserted at the beginning.

It happens ONLY upon first starting up Lynx, and doesn't happen when switching
to other bookmark pages.  This is one of the kinds of cosmetic bugs that 
are minor in the overall scheme of things, but drives me nuts.

I also just noticed that my fifth bookmark page has NO HEADER at all in it.
It just shows the 3 links I have there.  I don't know how that happened.
Maybe I made the file manually and didn't use the multi-bookmark file code
to create it?