Re: [Lynx-dev] link background in lynx-2.8.6-27

[Stephen Isard]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Thomas Dickey dickey-at-his.com |lynx-dev| wrote:
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> According to the changelog, I added ASSUMED_COLOR in 2.8.3dev.23,
> and DEFAULT_COLORS in 2.8.6pre.4 (though the code used the feature
> since 2.8.3dev.18).
>
> But I made the color-style configuration the default in 2.8.6 - consensus
> was that it was an improvement.  Occasionally (this past month is odd with
> _two_ comments about it) someone asks about it.
>
> The oldlynx script in lynx's samples directory makes it look almost the
> same as the non-color-style.  (The "almost" is because links don't
> paint just the same way...).  According to the changelog, I added the
> DEFAULT_COLORS setting to help with the oldlynx script, which looks like
> this:
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Ok.  As I said, I don't think the packagers of my rpm really intended 
yellow text on a white background, so I'll just say it is happening in 
the default configuration and that setting DEFAULT_COLORS to false gives 
the black background that their lynx.lss specifies.  I'm not really 
fussy about the colors as long as I can make out the text.  The oldlynx 
settings would be ok, as would the colors that I think they were trying 
for.  I just don't think lynx should come up unreadable by default.

Thanks again,

Stephen Isard