Re: Help with libcurses and lynx under NetBSD-9 and -current?

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Brian Buhrow wrote:

> 	Hello Brett.  My apologies for taking so long to look at this issue.  Your fixes improve
> the situation, but don't appear to entirely solve it.  Specifically, in lynx, if trying to
> select from a drop down menu, the options for the drop down menu do not appear on the screen.
> Here's how to reproduce the issue I'm seeing and my environment, in case that helps clarify the
> problem.
>
> 1.  Run lynx against any web site.
> lynx -show_cursor
>
> 2.  While lynx is running, press o to open the options page.
>
> 3.  Arrow down until you reach the SSL prompting menu item.
>
> 4.  press return on that menu item.  This should produce a popup window in the middle of your
> text and your arrow keys should let you select one of the choices.
>
> 5.  On a working system, I get the popup window and I can arrow around.
> On the libcurses with your changes, nothing appears on the screen, though the arrow keys do
> change the choices from inside Lynx, meaning when you hit return to select an option, you can
> see you've changed your selection back on the main screen.

This, actually isn't a curses issue. In this situation, on colour
terminals, lynx highlights the selected item in yellow; on mono
terms, no highlight is applied at all. You can change this by using
a custom .lss file. Just copy the default /usr/pkg/etc/lynx.lss as
~/.lynx.lss, then make this small change:

$ diff /usr/pkg/etc/lynx.lss ~/.lynx.lss
64c64
< menu.active:  normal:                 yellow:         black
---
> menu.active:  reverse:                yellow:         black
$

Run lynx as: lynx -lss=$HOME/.lynx.lss
You can also: export LYNX_LSS=$HOME/.lynx.lss

Apart from minor display glitches, it works out OK.

-RVP