Re: LYNX-DEV two suggestions submitted

[Al Gilman]

  From: "Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <address@hidden>

  On Sun, 11 May 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:
  
  >   2. Allow command-line toggles to be given as absolute values.
  >      Toggles such as "-show_cursor" mean "toggle the show_cursor flag
  >      vs. what's in the lynx.cfg I am using".  If the system
  >      administrator changes lynx.cfg, the user who was overriding it
  >      suddenly gets the opposite behavior.  Add the ability to say
  >      "-show_cursor+" and "-show_cursor-", to turn the flag *on* or *off*
  >      regardless of what's in lynx.cfg.
  
That's a good idea.  Toggles on the command line are a bad idea.

  Too cryptic?  How about (as new "long" options):
  
  --show_cursor=on | --show_cursor=off 
  
That's an improvement.  

IMHO
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Al Gilman
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