Re: [Lynx-dev] Is There a way to Bypass Progress Messages?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>       This is such a minor issue but I am curious to know if there
> is a way to get lynx to not print connection-related progress
> messages?
> 
>       They are very helpful if something is not right but when
> things are routine, those of us who use screen readers listen to
> them even though they probably flash on screen for a very brief
> time. An example of the messages I refer to follows:
> 
> Looking up mobile.wunderground.com
> Making HTTP connection to mobile.wunderground.com
> waiting for response.
> 
> I have an alias in my .bash_profile that calls lynx as follows:
> 
> alias lynx='lynx -nostatus'
> 
> and that does suppress some of the progress messages but it would
> be nice just to go right to hearing the page as it comes up.

hmm - reading the code, I see that "informational messages cannot
be suppressed.  There are about as many calls for those as there
are for "status messages".
 
Possibly some pruning (say, with a new option "-noinfo"),
though it would take some work to avoid suppressing messages
that you actually need.

I had thought that reducing the time for each of the message types
dealt with user-nuisance.

#INFOSECS:1
#MESSAGESECS:2
#ALERTSECS:3
#NO_PAUSE:FALSE

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