On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Jay Hacker wrote:
I'm trying to dump some web pages with very long paragraphs, and it's
important to maintain correct paragraph boundaries. I tried:
$ lynx -dump -width 1000000 mypage.html
but it seems paragraphs still get wrapped at about 1000 characters.
Is there a hard limit on the maximum paragraph wrap width? Can it be
increased?
long:
It's a compiled-in limit. There are a few interrelated limits, including
this, and some scattered buffer-sizes (which as I recall are assumed to
be larger than this). This is also an assumption in the memory-allocation
scheme used that this size is fairly small relative to the chunk-size.
short:
with some work, it's probably doable to rebuild lynx with a larger
fixed-limit (and making that configurable is an item on my to-do list),
but eliminating the fixed-limit altogether is a lot of work, because
lynx uses a _lot_ of fast allocations when building up the display.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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