LYNX-DEV future of -book command line control

[Al Gilman]

  From: "Hiram Lester, Jr." <address@hidden>

  On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:
  
  >     I use -book regularly, and suggest that you spend a bit more time
  > understanding how the multibookmark file support works, and why it's that
  > way.
  
  I also use -book regularly when I know I want to start up on a bookmark
  page or if I'm having problems connecting to the default home defined in
  lynx.cfg.  Instead of advocating it's removal, it might be nice to extend
  it somewhat to allow specifying WHICH bookmark file to show... '-book'
  alone would still prompt, '-book=c' would bring up bookmark file c... What
  say ye? :)
  
The think I think we could prune away is the STARTFILE control in
lynx.cfg.  Here's a way that might get more users using what Lynx
can do for them: Introduce a RESTART_HERE verb that puts a hidden
input in .lynxrc which has the effect of STARTFILE.  The
RESTART_HERE is a keystroke command.  It uses the same
document/link/cancel intermediate query as A)dd bookmark.

One can then interactively change the start-page behavior of
his/her personal Lynx, and it doesn't impact the O)ptions screen.

[When I say .lynxrc has a hidden input, I mean that there is a
field in the file that the program responds to, but it is not
reflected in the O)ptions screen either by a display or a
control.]

Al Gilman

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