Re: Disabling timeout

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:40:27 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:48:27AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Can anybody tell me how i can disable timeouts?
> I do have
> 
>   NO_PAUSE=on
>   no_pause=on
>   infosecs=0.25
>   messagesecs=0.25
>   alertsecs=0.25

If you used "lynx -dump" that would eliminate the alerts, but the
informational messages would still print.
 
> in my ~/.lynxrc, and (reformatted by bash):
> 
>   translate ()
>   {
>       ( [ $# -le 1 ] || {
>           echo 'Synopsis: translate WORD' 1>&2;
>           exit 1
>       };
>       i=lynx;
>       command -v lynx-redux > /dev/null 2>&1 && i=lynx-redux;
>       exec $i https://m.dict.cc/deen/?s="$*" )
>   }
> 
> and if i say say "translate hochsommer" (german) then i get three
> or four message displays in the footer, plus a cookie, and then
> more, so that it takes seconds before i get the result.

that sounds like 1 second, unless time-delays aren't working.

> Is it possible, without the modal cookie question, to simply *go*
> regardless of those.  I only ever want errors in the footers,

not without changing the code (another option...)

> maybe unless i want.  (Ie, i would have no problem with a shortcut
> to "scroll" backward through the messages, or open a scrollable
> window of messages, but other than that.)
> 
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
> 
> 

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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