Re: LYNX-DEV Verbose Images Patch

[Bill Schiavo]

Hello everyone.  

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Lloyd G. Rasmussen wrote:

> Today I downloaded the 386 version of 2.8.1 Rev 3 from Wayne Buttles's 
> site  www.fdisk.com and have to say that Helen Volland's patch for 
> substituting filenames for [link], and [image] is really cool.
Great!  I am glad that you like the patch and that is why I updated it to
work with the latest developmental code.  I am a blind user of lynx and I
thought that replacing [link] and [image] with the actual filenames was a
whole lot more useful.

I have also incorporated this patch in BLynx386.  

> I realize that you can get the same effect by running in Advanced user 
> mode, but I prefer to see a few more messages by staying in 
> Intermediate.  Sometimes the name of a GIF does supply some useful 
> information, and I'm glad to have it.  
> 
> For those who haven't looked at this option, here's the relevant 
> portion of Lynx.cfg:
> 
> 
> # VERBOSE_IMAGES controls whether or not Lynx replaces the [LINK], [INLINE] an
> # [IMAGE] comments (for images without ALT) with filenames of these images.
> # This is extremely useful because now we can determine immediately what image
> # are just decorations (button.gif, line.gif) and what images are important.
> #
> # If this option is set here, it will override the setting in userdefs.h.
> VERBOSE_IMAGES:TRUE
> 
> -- Lloyd Rasmussen
> Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
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> 
> 
Bill