LYNX-DEV This weekend's hacking

[Andrew Kuchling]

Some people have been speaking of releasing a 2.7.2 version of Lynx.
While I personally think it's too early for that, before doing so, it
would be nice to knock off a few of the simpler suggestions on the To
Do list at http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html.  So, here are
my candidates for this weekend's hacking:

        * With multibookmarks enabled, have -book=c take you to
bookmark file C; -book prompts the user as it does now.
        
        * Saving cookies to a file on exit.  One question: where
should cookies be saved by default?  ~/.lynxcookies?  Netscape creates
a private directory ~/.netscape and puts lots of stuff in it,
including the cookies file; perhaps Lynx should create its own private
directory, too?

        * Support --version as well as -version.  Ooh, this'll be a
tough one. :)

        * There's also a suggestion from David Combs to allow sending
trace output to a file.  That's not hard to do, but it'll make a
massive patch; right now there are many bits of code scattered all
over the place which do 'if (TRACE) fprintf(stderr, "whatever");', and
they'd *all* have to be changed to print to some file, which might be
stderr, or might not.  Most Unix users can run "lynx -trace 2>err",
which sends stderr to a file while leaving stdout alone; however, I
don't know if Mac/Win95/VMS users have that sort of option.  Should
this be added for their sake?


        Andrew Kuchling
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