Re: [Lynx-dev] Auto-session trouble.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:25:37 +0200
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/08, Patrick <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi.  :-)
> [...]
> > > Still, it looks like a good idea, and should be very useful once
> > > the details get worked out.  :-)  It should already be useful to
> > > some, if in a limited way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> >
> > Bug for enabling changing auto-session configuration from lynxrc file
> > is already fixed, available as patch in mailing list archivers. TD
> > will include it in next dev version of lynx.
>
> This one?
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2008-05/msg00042.html

sounds about right.

> There are a lot of patches on the list, so maybe I should just
> wait for 2.8.7dev.10 .  That one seemed the most likely.

ok.  I'm juggling different sets of changes (different programs...).

For lynx, the main blocking change is a detail in the fixes I've been 
working on for improving xml support.  The most recent snapshot-patch for 
lynx is

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.7dev.9e.patch.gz

which appears to have that change in it.

> I still wouldn't call it a bug though, because other lynx.cfg
> settings don't support tilde expansion either [jump-file, for
> example], and the documentation *doesn't* claim that it will work
> for session files.  Incomplete maybe, but not a bug as far as I
> can tell.

agree (it would be nice to be consistent throughout)

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