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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:40:14AM +1300,
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > The fact that you can't cut&paste from/to links 0.9.0 is to
> > me a fatal flaw.
>
> You can. Hold down the shift key.

I just read David's post. Should be in the manpage, don't you
think?

I've never heard of having to hold down shift to cut&paste for
any app. 

> > Once the decision to use X has been made, it makes no sense  
> > to use _any_ of the image-displaying alternatives,           
>
> I agree. That's why I didn't compile vgalib capability into the
> BL3 version of links2 

> (which made Sindi unhappy).

I am not chuckling.

> > And libncurses is _huge_,
>
> I agree. That's why it's not in BL3 (and why I've avoided apps
> that use it).

I am not sticking my tongue out at Sindi.

> > (One of the things I admire about links 0.9.0 is that it
> > doesn't use libncurses _or_ X. Frankly, I was shocked when
> > I ran ldd on it and discovered that its only dependency was
> > libc.)
>
> links is great. It does a surprising amount with a relatively
> small footprint. It was the key app in BL1.

I'm starting to get used to it. Does great FTP browsing too,
I must admit. Now that I know how to c&p with it, it's looking
a lot better. And it allows you to selectively download and
display images in seperate windows so the process doesn't get
in the way.

Lee

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