Re: lynx-dev pre3 (patch) startfile failure now more user friendly:)

[Leonid Pauzner]

13-May-99 14:51 Philip Webb wrote:
> 990513 Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> * When STARTFILE could not be loaded lynx now exit with more understandable
>>   status: all important statusline messages now printed to stderr/stdout.
> -- patch snipped --

> this looks as if it's intended to solve the problem
> i tried to tackle with painful results by changing the default startfile.
> certainly, it's best to provide a user-friendly exit message,
> but (1) could you give us an example of what it will look like?

Not too much but still a little better:


lynx LYNXCOOKIE:

||The Cookie Jar is empty.
||
||lynx: Can't access startfile LYNXCOOKIE:/


lynx xyz://aaaaa.bb.cc

||Badly formed address xyz://aaaaa.bb.cc/
||
||lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
||      Exiting...


lynx http://www.hhh -localhost

||Only files and servers on the local host can be accessed.
||
||lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
||      Exiting...


but was:
||lynx: Can't access startfile file://localhost/aaaaa

now:

||Can't Access `file://localhost/aaaaa'
||Alert!: Unable to access document.
||
||lynx: Can't access startfile


> & (2) did you consider an information screen instead of exiting?
> IIRC there was no objection to the latter, it simply needed programming:
> i can provide my proposed screen again, if you're willing.