On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:07:39PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > I send just a piece of this excellent article; > go to URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/printer_012305L.shtml > > Thanks for sending the article's URL. Now that you know how to find > it, it would be really helpful if you would send the URL with each > article you send. When I know the URL, I can post a note immediately.
Richard: (Note: I'm going to, by separate email, send this email, as is, to lynx-dev.) Getting the link in a separate step, mousing it, then editing the article to insert it, all extra steps over my usual mutt -s "nifty article on xyz" some < t5 , is, perhaps surprisingly, a pain, a negative, that little bit extra of hand and finger effort and time to affect the "do I send this one? Is it good enough?" question -- ESPECIALLY either late, late at night, in a huge rush to get off the computer and hit the bed, or when in the usual huge rush, plus semi-guilt feeling from "wasting time" doing this (enjoyable) stuff. The absolutely best *solution* to this no-self-link problem *of lynx* is to *change lynx itself*. I have, over the years, pleaded with the lynx-dev readers to *please* have lynx, when it "prints" an article (to file -- which file I then send out), to include a self-link. All to no avail. :-( (Even though the easiest way to do it would be to, down in the references section, add a zeroth one to itself, eg: [0] http://www.foo.com/~joeblow Or, if worried about some wget-like software automatically parsing the file, looking for http://-strings, and getting into a length-one loop or even just grabbing the same document a 2nd time -- then they could hack that ZEROTH http-ref to get it to be ignored by the parser. ----- They won't do it for me. Richard -- MAYBE they'll do it for YOU -- being as they, the lynx development-team members, each one of them, surely use *your* FSF software tens or hundreds of times every day. So -- since you really want (the result of) this feature, YOU join the lynx-dev mailing-list, and YOU, with the widely admired person, ask for it. Maybe have a look at the sources (ask them to guide you to the appropriate .c-file for lynx's "print" (to file) feature), then cut-n-paste the piece of code that needs to be hacked, including your own ideas of how what you want might be added. You do that, and there's a chance that someone'll actually do it. (No, don't spend your time actually doing it; too much to know, eg the .cfg-file, adding to the options-table (so users can turn feature on and off), etc, etc -- too much overhead for adding just a single *wee* feature!) I'm going to, by separate email, send this email, as is, to lynx-dev. Good luck! David PS: If somehow you succeed in getting them to add this feature, I've got *years* worth of suggestions I've tried to get them to add to lynx, so maybe ..... :-) D. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
