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Re: [Lynx-dev] important improvements


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] important improvements
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

At 07:11 p -0400 06/09/2007, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

Oh, speaking of these functions...

When I do the nudge up or down, lines get pooted out to scrollback. If there is any way to nudge without that happening, it sure would be nice.

That sounds like a feature of the terminal emulator (or 'screen')
which lynx can't address.

But it doesn't happen when paging up/down, so what's different about lines?

As I understand your first comment, what is happening is that the curses (or whatever) library is updating the display by asking the terminal to scroll up/down by a few lines, then painting new text in the blank area.

For a pageup/down, it could be simply repainting the whole display -
if the whole screen changes, there's no point in shifting everything up/down to paint over it. (Even for a half-screen, that depends on how long the shifting is supposed to take, and whether the curses library notices this would be a good solution).

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