> This patch does not add any new functionality. All I did was I went
> through more than 1000 lines of extremely badly written obfuscated C code
> worthy of a first year CS student...
>
> I managed to remove more than 1/3 of this code, unobfuscate most of
> the algorithms I could understand, remove unused structure members,
> remove duplicate code chunks, remove duplicate logic, introduce
> properly named tmp variables, etc etc etc. But this is the only a
> small fraction of GridText.c, and this file is only a small fraction
> of lynx... Of all the useful software I have seen, lynx definitely
> has the worst source code...
>
> The patch takes around 66K, so I hesitate to include it here. It is
> on
>
>
>ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/nonprivate/diff_lynx-2.8-4-18-gridtext-cleanup
I'll look into it after the problems with NEXT_DOC are resolved, and we've
gotten some feedback on TRST (I found a 4th bug yesterday -- overlapping
fields).
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