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:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:58:21PM -0500, Stephen Isard wrote:
<snip>
> > /etc/lynx.lss, there is a line
> > alink:          reverse:                yellow:         black
> > but links are displayed as yellow on a white, rather than black,
> > background, which I find hard to see.  If I replace the word "black"
> > by any other permissable  color name, the links come up with that
> > color as background.  It is only "black" (and of course "white")
> > that gives a white background.
>
> That sounds as if your terminal background is white, and tweaking one or
> both of these settings in lynx.cfg would help:
>
>         ASSUMED_COLOR
>         DEFAULT_COLORS

Yep, the terminal background is white, and changing DEFAULT_COLORS from 
true to false gives the link text a black background.  Thank you.

I take it from your response that this is the way you expect lynx to 
work with the given settings, i.e., it's not a bug.  I'd be surprised 
though if the yellow on white I was getting is what the packagers of my 
rpm intended.  It only started happening when I switched to Scientific 
Linux 6, which has lynx-2.8.6-27.  Under Scientific Linux 5 with 
lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm, links had a contrasting background. 
To help me make a useful report to the packagers, can you tell me 
whether the behavior of lynx itself has changed in this regard between 
2.8.5 and 2.8.6?  The earlier package didn't have an /etc/lynx.lss file 
at all, whereas the current lynx binary refuses to run without a .lss 
file.  Is that your change or theirs?  The old package did have 
/etc/lynx.cfg, but no entry in it for DEFAULT_COLORS.  Is it new, or did 
they just start using it?  Basically, do I want to tell them that lynx 
has changed, or that some change they have made themselves has had an 
unintended consequence?

Thanks for your time (and for lynx!),

Stephen Isard