On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > > It seems you just don't like lynx's behavior, and others disagree.
> >
> > Oh, no! Not you again!
> >
> > Read my message to Henry Nelson and you see that, thanks to him, the
> > problem has been corrected and lynx/slang is now correctly displaying
> > colors 4 and 5.
>
> For your own private definition of "problem" and "correct".
>
> Look, I don't mind that you want the behavior of lynx/slang to change, but
> I do mind that you declare the old behavior as a "problem" and "incorrect"
> and expect everyone to automatically agree.
It's so obvious that I thought that everybody woudl agree but now I see that
the obvious is not always easy to see.
Anyway, the behaviour of lynx/slang and lynx/ncurses are different in respect
to colors 4 and 5. So, tell me which is the correct one.
> You never asked which lines in th code were responsible for the behavior
> you dislike, so that you could change it (I could and would have told you).
> Instead, you seemed to be demanding that "someone" change it for all
> lynx(/slang) users (not just you).
Another obvious thing for anyone who really wanted to help.
> I am willing to bet that, if your change is made in the distributed code,
> lynx-dev will get bug reports like "The new lynx doesn't underline in my
> xterm any more". Maybe that's tolerable, maybe not. All this is not just a
> technical problem, but one of preferences.
How much do you want to bet and how we're going to decide who's the winner?
Ismael
--
________________________________________________________________
| |
| ISMAEL CORDEIRO | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Production sound mixer | http://ismael.cordeiro.com/ |
| Montr�al - Qu�bec - Canada | ftp://ftp.pubnix.net/users/ismael |
|________________________________________________________________|
