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Re: lynx-dev Is there any way to Turn Off Certain Status Messages?
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev Is there any way to Turn Off Certain Status Messages? |
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Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:37:14 -0400 (EDT) |
980928 Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> In the Lynx.cfg there are are MESSAGESECS, INFOSECS and ALERTSECS.
> They determine how long messages appear on the status line,
> and adjusting them can be particularly helpful for users of braille.
> I haven't tried this, but am told that if you set one
> of these variables to 0, that class of messages is not displayed at all.
yes, that is correct: i tried it out for a different reason recently.
note that messages may not always be assigned to the best category.
> On Lynx/386 and Lynx/32, I don't use BIOS screen output at all
> with Vocal-Eyes. Instead, I set a hyperactive window which reads
> the status line whenever the first four character positions change
> on that line. I run Lynx in Intermediate user mode,
> because I don't want to hear URL's all the time.
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