Re: lynx-dev flickering upon first bookmark display

[mattack]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
>Well the double-drawing is only there with partial display on.
>(And if the bookmark file is short enough, my recent change discussed
>with Leonid should suppress it [when it works right]...)

Then I guess I need a newer version at some point.  Well, my main
boomark file isn't "short enough" I guess, it's got 143 bookmarks.

>Using lynx locally (I haven't tried this with a remote one), with ncurses,
>I get a rather smooth redraw.  Actually ncurses doesn't really "redraw",
>it effectively and cleverly just scrolls the screen contents from the
>first refresh down to make space for the added lines.  Of course that
>would depend on what curses/slang library you use and on the terminal
>description.

Well, I think we're just on the verge of being pedantically nitpicky here.
It's "visually disturbing".  I notice it here on this telnet session 
at work, though I guess it's probably more annoying at home on an 80 * 24 
screen over a modem connection..  Anyway, it just seems like something that
could be easily worked around, especially by someone who already understands
the code.

>> 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?
>
>What do you mean with HEADER?  The two
>> Description: ...
>>    Filepath: ...
>lines or something else?

My main bookmark file has:

   You can delete links using the new remove bookmark command. it is
   usually the 'R' key but may have been remapped by you or your system
   administrator.
   This file may also be edited with a standard text editor. Outdated or
   invalid links may be removed by simply deleting the line the link
   appears on in this file. Please refer to the Lynx documentation or
   help files for the HTML link syntax.

Bookmark files 2 through 4, but not 5, have:
   You can delete links using the remove bookmark command. It is usually
   the 'R' key but may have been remapped by you or your system
   administrator.
   This file also may be edited with a standard text editor to delete
   outdated or invalid links, or to change their order.

Bookmark file 5 just starts with the various links, and doesn't even say:
"Bookmark file" in the upper right..  (Hmm, I thought this might be related
to it having 'bookmarks' in the title of the file, but experimentation showed
that wasn't the case.)