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Re: lynx-dev xli -quiet


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev xli -quiet
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:04:09 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ian Collier wrote:

> Quote from lynx.cfg which comes with lynx-2.8.4-18 (a Red Hat 7.3 package,
> if it matters):
>
> # XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND will be used as a default in src/HTInit.c for
> # viewing image content types when the DISPLAY environment variable
> # is set.  Make it the full path and name of the xli (also know as
> # xloadimage or xview) command, or other image viewer.
>   [big snip]
> # If you use xli, you may want to add the -quiet flag.
> #
> #XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xli %s &
>
> Well, now you mention it, yes I do want to add the -quiet flag; otherwise
> xli spouts info in inappropriate places on the screen, which requires a
> screen refresh before lynx can be used again.

Actually I haven't found this to be a big problem since I modified lynx to
adjust the terminal settings (to avoid staircased messages).  That's for
ncurses of course.  If someone wants to implement the corresponding code
for slang, that would be the way to go.

> I just wondered if this could be made the default setting rather than
> require everyone to edit their own lynx.cfg to put it in.
>
> Oh, and http://pantransit.reptiles.org/prog/ is a better place than
> ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib to get xli. :-)

ok - will see.

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