Re: LYNX-DEV No Win16 version

[Wayne Buttles]

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > > And of course, defining DOSPATH is out since DOSPATH implies a bunch
> > > of unrelated things like that you want your terminal type to be
> > > hardcoded as "vt100"!
> 
> Is there  a reason that vt100 is hardcoded into the DOSPATH versions?

Yes.  Many people complained that lynx shouldn't need to ask what the term
was and setting an env variable was asking too much.  It was a quick fix
and should be revisited now that we are all older and wiser.  

> There is a thread on comp.editors now complaining that the vt100 causes
> problems with vim, when it is used as the editor from lynx_386.  There
> are simple workarounds, but I never understood why a TERM variable
> should be hardcoded in (and not overridden by a TERM environment
> variable).
>                                     Doug
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