Re: testing; and a few questions

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:32:43AM -0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > In addition, we don't have to redraw the full screen but only the
> > article "pane". That's also a UI issue because the screen flickers
> > on a full redraw.
> Well, a pagedown is still a full page redraw, save for maybe the 
> header itself, right?

no, it's a redraw of <= 5/6 of the screen.

> I guess I'd suggest two, probably fairly easily implemented options:
> 1. replace row of spaces with row of hyphens

there is no row of spaces, there is just a single \n. replacing it by
a row of whatever needs a bit more logic than just replace the string
(we have to adjust the length to the current screen width).

> 2. make entire header inverse (though of course, that looks a little 
>    ugly if they've set it to trim spaces.

invers is not available on all terminals

urs
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