Re: LYNX-DEV No Win16 version

[T.E.Dickey]

> 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).
I saw the comp.editors thread...

vt100's still better than vim's hardcoding "vt52" for the same environment
(there's absolutely _no_ way that could be correct).

> >                                     Doug

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