On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:00:06PM -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote: > At <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ > is a public Wiki. I use lynx to visit > these pages quite regularly, editing pages when appropriate. > > The process of editing the page is to first visit the page, then select > the "Edit {insert title of page here}" submit button. At that point, > lynx displays a text box with the contents of the page in it. > > I then move into the text box, instruct lynx to invoke my personal editor > with the contents of the box. I do my editing, and leave my editor. > > A small percentage of time, Lynx asks me if I want to wrap the lines, > and I say no (seeing as I do not care to accidentally break source code, etc.) > A small percentage of the times I am asked if I want to wrap the lines, Lynx > indicates at this point, I believe, that it is wrapping the lines anyways.
I see some logic that does this if the lines are really too long (longer than 1024). Lynx has a fixed limit on the longest lines that it might try to display. > This I don't understand. Lynx was able to allocate lines large enough > for the data when first generating the page. So there should not need to > be a case where Lynx cannot allocate buffers large enough for the lines. > > Has anyone looked at this part of the code? Is this something that might, > perchance, be improved in the upcoming dev.10 release? > > -- > Tcl - The glue of a new generation. <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ > > Larry W. Virden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/> > Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should > be construed as representing my employer's opinions. > -><- > > ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
