Re: [Lynx-dev] Changes in lynx display

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> I just compiled 2.8.6dev.11 with patch 11i for mingw (under cygwin).
> This is the first lynx I have compiled since dev.5. I noticed some
> changes in the display; I don't know if these are related to the other
> reports or not. The mingw port is compiled with PDCurses 2.6. Both dev.5
> and dev.11 use the same curses library.
>
> In dev.11, the cursor is to the right of the link for a
> non-text-input-field. This is with "show cursor" off. If "show cursor"
> is on, the cursor is to the left of the link. In dev.5 the cursor stays
> in the lower right hand corner of the screen, except when at a text
> input field.

I hadn't noticed this.  Actually what I see is incorrect but different: 
I'm seeing the cursor at the end of the message line at the bottom,
rather than at the lower-right corner.

> In dev.11, on the options page, long lines are wrapped. In dev.5 they
> were truncated. In dev.11, when one of the long wrapped fields is
> changed via the drop-down box, the wrapped part on the next line is not
> updated. For an example, see the line for "links and form fields are
> numbered".

Perhaps that's specific to PDCurses.  Running with ncurses in a 20x65
xterm, I don't see that.  (I do see the line above the message line
cleared while the menu is visible, but restored when the menu is popped
down - that's with expert mode).  PDCurses' X11 port behaves properly
too (but I'll make a note to test on win32).

> When printing "lynx -version", I noted that it still prints a reference
> to moxienet for lynx ssl support. We should probably remove that. The
> code is in src/LYMain.c.
>
> Lynx -version reports:
> Lynx Version 2.8.6dev.11 (05 Jan 2005)
> libwww-FM 2.14FM, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g-dev, pdcurses 2.601
> Built on cygwin Mar 30 2005 19:01:37

The "-MM" - actually the "libwww-FM 2.14FM" is in the same category -
we could simply remove both strings.

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