Re: LYNX-DEV This weekend's hacking

[Andrew Kuchling]

Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>It think a private dir is a good idea.  The default bookmark file and .lynxrc
>already clutter up $HOME.  I also create a .book/ dir for my multiple bookmark
>files.  Maybe everything not beginning with / should go into $HOME/.lynx/ by
>default instead of $HOME.

        For backwards compatibility, lynx should check for
$HOME/.lynx/lynx.rc, and if that's not found try $HOME/.lynxrc.  That
needs just a little fiddling in LYrcFile.c:read_rc().  More generally,
it would be nice to do this for everything, but that's a good deal
more work, so this change would probably not be backwards-compatible
and would cause some pain.

        LYUtils.c:Home_Dir() checks various environment variables, and
returns a string containing the home directory; if $HOME is set, it
could automatically append /.lynx/ to it and, if required, create the
directory.  Otherwise, the current fallback cases would be used:

On DOS: $TEMP, C:\
On VMS: SYS$LOGIN, SYS$SCRATCH, sys$scratch
On Unix: The user's home directory from getpwuid(), or /tmp

        For VMS, should .lynx be created if SYS$LOGIN is used?  The
rest, except for C:\, are temp directories, so creating a .lynx subdir
seems unnecessary.  For C:\, should it create C:\LYNXRC or something?

        So, what do people think of this idea of a .lynx directory?

        
        Andrew Kuchling
        address@hidden
        http://people.magnet.com/%7Eamk/
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