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Re: lynx-dev reordered Options
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev reordered Options |
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:52:41 +0400 (MSD) |
31-Mar-2000 16:53 Klaus Weide wrote:
> Here's my draft of how a reorganized Froms Based Options Screen would
> appear.
Sorry, I read this thread only now. I think this layout definitely
better than the current version and should be adopted.
The only thing I note is that Cookies option is not (are not) saved
which looks rather strange (as far as I can remember, some options are
saved into lynx.rc and some are not - should be fixed IMO).
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Options Menu (Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.18++)
> Accept Changes - Reset Changes Left Arrow cancels changes [1]HELP!
> Save options to disk: [_]
> (options marked with (!) will not be saved)
> General Preferences
> User mode : [Advanced....]
> Cookies (!) : [ask user..]
> Searching type : [Case insensitive]
> Keyboard Input
> Keypad mode : [Links are numbered................]
> Emacs keys : [OFF]
> VI keys : [OFF]
> Line edit style : [Bash-like Bindings]
> Keyboard layout : [YAWERTY Cyrillic, for DEC LK201 kbd]
> Editor :
> __________________________________________
> Display and Character Sets
> Display character set : [Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)..........]
> Assumed document character set(!): [iso-8859-1......]
> Raw 8-bit (!) : [OFF]
> Messages Locale (!) :
> __________________________________________
> X Display (!) :
> __________________________________________
> Document Appearance
> Show color : [ON....]
> Show cursor : [OFF]
> Popups for select fields : [ON.]
> HTML error recovery (!) : [strict (SortaSGML mode)]
> Show images (!) : [as labels]
> Verbose images : [OFF..........]
> Headers transferred to servers
> Personal mail address :
> __________________________________________
> Preferred document character set : _________________________________
> Preferred document language : _________________________________
> User-Agent header (!) :
> __________________________________________
> Listing and Accessing Files
> FTP sort criteria : [By Name]
> Local directory sort criteria : [Mixed style......]
> Show dot files : [ON.]
> Execution links : [FOR LOCAL FILES ONLY]
> Special Files and Screens
> Multi-bookmarks : [ADVANCED]
> Review/edit Bookmarks files : [2]Goto multi-bookmark menu
> Visited Pages : [As Visit Tree..........]
> Check your [3]lynx.cfg here
> Accept Changes - Reset Changes Left Arrow cancels changes
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Notes:
> Message Locale doesn't exist yet (it's something I am experimenting
> with), so just ignore it.
> Most important options should come first.
> "User mode" is _the_ most important one. Every Novice user should
> sooner or later graduate to changind to Advanced. This should be in
> a prominet place.
> This is strictly a reordering and re-titling of existing options,
> theo options themselves are left unchanged. Not that they are ideal,
> but not now.
> Basic input & output ("Keyboard" and "Display") are most important
> to set up as needed, before it makes sense to customize the finer
> points. So those sections come first.
> Lynx is a Web browser/HTTP client/HTML renderer primarily and a way
> to access local files only secondarily (for most people), so
> "Headers ..." comes before "Listing ... Files".
> "Special Files" comes last because, uhm, they're special situations.
> Comments?
> Klaus
- lynx-dev Options X Display, Editor (was: reordered Options), (continued)
Re: lynx-dev reordered Options, Philip Webb, 2000/04/03
Re: lynx-dev reordered Options, Henry Nelson, 2000/04/04
Re: lynx-dev reordered Options, Henry Nelson, 2000/04/04
Re: lynx-dev reordered Options,
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