29-Dec-2002 17:42 Peter Rasmussen wrote: > Here comes my pet-peeves that I have had for some time with Lynx, but that I > never got around to talk about. Being in the mood I'll go ahead :-)
> I believe they aren't just mis-configurations, but I could of course be wrong. > 1.When asking to see the source by pressing '\' a new request is sent to the > server. Building 2.8.5dev12 with '--enable-source-cache' I hoped that it > wasn't so anymore, but as far as I can see in my Apache access_log it still > does. Have I been misled, or have I misunderstood? Search lynx.cfg for SOURCE_CACHE symbol, it is defaulted to NONE. set it to FILE or MEMORY and you get it. > 2.When entering text in a FORM, the page in Lynx is always a little messed up. > For example in linuxtoday.com talkbacks I get the following: ... > I didn't use the configure switch '--disable-forms-options' but let it build This is just the 'O'ptions Menu output, have nothing with TEXTAREA. > The first lines can be dealt with and I have gotten used to it, but the actual > comments box (TEXTAREA) annoys me, because each line scrolls and only the > little window of the initial line width is viewed and only the designated lines > are allowed. It makes it very painful to use if you want to write something > longer than what the ROWS and COLS tags says. Either an external editor, eg. vi > or vim, should be spawned or the TEXTAREA editor in Lynx should be improved. Try ^E^E to spawn the editor within TEXTAREA. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
