Re: lynx-dev Linux/ncurses/Lynx 2.8 no-bold links

[Philip Webb]

980602 Dennis Reichel wrote:
> This included email describes a problem I & at least one other person had.
> I built the lynx with as many default options as possible.
> all links (including currently selected) are highlighted.
> I'm using the same version kernel & my system is based on slackware,
> gcc 2.7.2, but I am not using X-Windows.
> I found that I needed to change makefile a bit though to get a compile
> ( -lcurses became -lncurses )
> Otherwise all the configuration options were default.
>> I recently fetched lynx 2.8 and compiled it myself.
>> The problem I am getting compared to 2.7.1 is that links now all appear
>> as reverse video rather than bold. In 2.7.1 links would appear in bold
>> & the currently selected link would appear in reverse video.
>> Now that they all appear in reverse video, this makes it very hard
>> to tell which is the current link. I am using lynx on:
>>      Linux 2.0.33 - Slackware
>>      XFree86 (3.2 I think)
>>      KDE beta 4
>>      using kvt & xterm.
 
someone else may give you a more detailed reply,
but there has been discussion here recently about a similar problem:
look in the Archive at  www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ ;
you could also try the latest development version
from  sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/ .

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