Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.22

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:

> ==>> SLtt_add_color_attribute(4, SLTT_ULINE_MASK)
> 
> The function is "hardcoded in the slang library".  *How* it is used is
> "just something in the lynx code," except that someone at sometime
> seriously thought that that was the right way in the right place, and
> probably was right at the time.

Most likely that "someone" was John Davis.  I have been wondering whether
there was a good reason for it, and never got a good answer.  It may have
been just a whim, or something that happened to look good on JD's display,
or an experiment that never got removed.  Somebody's preference.  It has
become part of Lynx's "slang personality" by now.  Just replacing it by
somebody else's preference now, even if that one is more logical, is not
just a bug fix.

  Klaus