On 12/12/07, Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, as far as you know, but that is really something for a > > distribution to consider. > > Not sure what you are referring to, please clarify: that some > distributions configure the terminal emulators to default to another > background, or that distributions should configure the lynx defaults. If > the later, then for example Fedora tries not to change application > default, it tries to stick with what "upstream" provides.
Settings in userdefs.h, lynx.cfg, ~/.lynxrc, aliases, -cfg, and the Options page are all available, system TERM and SHELL. Client terminal emulator settings are a variable. > > The lynx app itself is totally configurable. (For example) it also > > doesn't default to vi keys, and so 'j' doesn't work as expected. By > > me. And so on. > > This is an incorrect analogy so irrelevant to the discussion at hand: > this is not something that has recently changed in lynx. I did not see a reference to a recent change, just default behaviour, my apologies. > > Actual terminals have dark backgrounds and going to white background > > is equally strange there. > > 2 fundamental problems with this statement: > - with my proposal things work correctly with both X terminal > emulators and real terminals. Tested with xterm and the linux console: > the background stays white and black, respectively. > - there are a few orders of magnitude less actual terminals than > terminal emulators in use, so basing defaults on actual terminals > would not help the majority of users. > > Again, lynx has not used a default black background until now. Why > change? Again, I don't see a reference to a change (I am probably missing something). Stefan Caunter http://caunter.ca/contact.html _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
