Re: lynx-dev reordered Options

[Philip Webb]

000403 Klaus Weide was still soliciting feedback on reordered Options:
 
>>   General Preferences
>>   User mode                        : [Advanced....]
>>   Cookies (!)                      : [ask user..]
>>   Searching type                   : [Case insensitive]
> in general, does the "General Preferences" section make sense?
> Cookies could go under "Headers transferred to servers", but
>   1. I think it should be in a prominent place, and
>   2. it's about more than "Headers _transferred to_",
>      actually it's primarily about accepting _from_.

it makes sense, incl Cookies, but i'ld put Cookies last.

> should "Searching type" be in the "Keyboard Input" section?
-- 000403 VH invited comment from the natives re wording --

i would certainly call it `Search type', on the ground
that words should be kept short & simple, esp when used for quick reference.
strictly, it should be under Keyboard Input,
but it's also a Common Choice -- see my other message re that -- ,
which is often changed, so leave it near the top.

>>   Keyboard Input
>>   Keypad mode                      : [Links are numbered................]
>>   Emacs keys                       : [OFF]
>>   VI keys                          : [OFF]
>>   Line edit style                  : [Bash-like Bindings]
>>   Keyboard layout                  : [YAWERTY Cyrillic, for DEC LK201 kbd]
>>   Editor                           : _________________________________
> I'm tempted to put "Editor" at the _beginning_ of "Keyboard Input"
> it's so important users fill this in (if not restricted),
> otherwise they get only inferior fallback behavior when using features.

for the same reasoning as re Search type,
i'ld put Editor in the Common Choice list (2nd, before Search type).
 
>>   Display and Character Sets
>>   Display character set            : [Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)..........]
>>   Assumed document character set(!): [iso-8859-1......]
>>   Raw 8-bit (!)                    : [OFF]
>>   Messages Locale (!)              : _________________________________
>>   X Display (!)                    : ________________________________

ok

>>   Document Appearance
>>   Show color                       : [ON....]
>>   Show cursor                      : [OFF]
>>   Popups for select fields         : [ON.]
>>   HTML error recovery (!)          : [strict (SortaSGML mode)]
>>   Show images (!)                  : [as labels]
>>   Verbose images                   : [OFF..........]

possibly call this section Screen Format?
i prefer a hyphen in words like `pop-up'.
 
>>   Headers transferred to servers
>>   Personal mail address            : __________________________________
>>   Preferred document character set : _________________________________
>>   Preferred document language      : _________________________________
>>   User-Agent header (!)            : __________________________________

capitalise `Headers Transferred to Servers'
 
>>   Listing and Accessing Files
>>   FTP sort criteria                : [By Name]
>>   Local directory sort criteria    : [Mixed style......]
>>   Show dot files                   : [ON.]
>>   Execution links                  : [FOR LOCAL FILES ONLY]
>> 
>>   Special Files and Screens
>>   Multi-bookmarks                  : [ADVANCED]
>>   Review/edit Bookmarks files      : [2]Goto multi-bookmark menu
>>   Visited Pages                    : [As Visit Tree..........]

ok 

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