AddCacheInfo: Delete too dangerous at front

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gentlemen, AddCacheInfo:

     WWWOFFLE - Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:53:33 CST (13 months ago) -
  [Delete|Refresh:Options|Monitor|Index|Configure|Info] - WWWOFFLE

The Delete selection is just too dangerous, being right there at first
place.

Proof: say a page doesn't have any links, and say we are in lynx, say
we arrived at the page using a right arrow, and lacking millisecond
timing our fumble finger is still resting upon the right arrow key
emitting a second right arrow, thus deleting our beloved page with no
recourse short of hoping it is still on the Internet.

True, one can customize AddCacheInfo, but I like to stay abreast of
the official edition. Also dlocate -conf wwwoffle doesn't list it in
Debian, and there's no way to make add-cache-info point to a different
file in wwwoffle.conf. Therefore my changes will surely get
overwritten the next time I upgrade wwwoffle.

Or wwwoffle should be enhanced to allow one to require confirmation of
deletes, but I bet that would also be on the first link and oops, I
fell asleep on the right arrow key...

OK, I edited /usr/share/wwwoffle/html/en/messages/AddCacheInfo.html .
(I'm not sure if one can put it into some "local/messages" directory
to avoid getting clobbered upon upgrades.)
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