Re: LYNX-DEV This weekend's hacking

[Jason Baker]

On May 8, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
>       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

[snip]

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

I would heartily welcome this, personally.  It would make it more
feasible to break out config files into smaller, more easily learned
chunks, and clean some of the cruft out of my home root. :)  It also
tends to make it easier to figure out just how much space a given
utility is going to need per user. (Of course, bookmark files can
throw that one out the window)

>       Andrew Kuchling

Jason

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