[95] in Zephyr_Comments
subscription files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Sat Sep 10 14:23:52 1988
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 88 14:21:56 EDT
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Ilhamuddin Ahmed <ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [0094] in Zephyr_Comments
(1) You don't need the zwgc -ttymode if you do a zctl set fallback on.
(2) You say that
>The problem with this is that it is slow and does not always work.
Please explain; if it doesn't always work, submit a bug report. The
four lines you listed look fine to me...
Also, if you want some subscriptions to be removed, try using the zctl
add_unsubscriptions command (see the zctl man page for details.) That
would avoid the need to run zctl cancel or to run zinit again; simply
create a .zephyr.subs.ttymode with unsubscriptions in it. (Send
another message if you don't understand what the man page says, you
should be able figure out what I mean here.)
Another thing to note: there is a $mode variable in the .zephyr.desc
which is either `tty' or `window', so you can modify your descriptions
based on modes. There is also /mit/zephyr/src/zwgc/zwgc.el, an emacs
mode for running zwgc inside of emacs (useful on dialups) but it
assumes you know something about emacs-lisp (ie. it is unsupported, if
you have trouble with it that is your problem.)
In summary: adding extra features as you describe don't seem to
address the real problem. More effort should be put into browser
design, and perhaps designing a browser for ttymode as well.
Mark Eichin
<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
Project Athena ``Watchmaker'', ZephyrTeam
