Re: lynx-dev [PATCH 2.8.3.dev4] Make prettysrc available from lynx.cfg

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:

> This makes prettysrc available from lynx.cfg
> .
> Btw, what is the logic?  Why some options cannot be set from lynx.cfg?

Turning prettysrc on is more than "enabling" it.  It overrides
the way '\' acts on text/html files, therefore it makes the normal
SOURCE display unavailable.  If you 'P'rint from this 'source' view
(e.g. to disk, to mail), you don't get in general valid text/html
source.

This is IMO a good reason for not making this configurable to be
the default '\' behavior.  I was thinking along these lines when
I implemented -preparsed, but only as a command line option.

If lynx can be configured to make prettysrc the default '\' behavior,
then there is also a much stronger reason to fully document the
variant behavior in the Users Guide.  Your patch makes it possible
to configure lynx in a way that breaks normal '\' behavior for
unsuspecting users, without any warning.

   Klaus