Re: [Lynx-dev] Don't open link on left mouse click

2022-08-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin via Lynx-dev 

On 8/2/22 10:07:02, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Mouse dixit:
>
>> (b) what do "graphical browsers" have to do with lynx?
>
> As soon as you enable “mouse” support they do, because it then
> suddenly becomes one.
>
> I don’t use lynx’ “mouse” support (didn’t notice it has one in
> the first place) because I use the pointer in uxterm for copy
> to PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD (with Shift) exclusively. This is much
> more sane IMHO. There, lynx stays a text mode browser ☺
>
Somewhat as MacOS from the very earliest has used Meta-C rather than
Ctrl-C for Copy; a blessing because the latter has long been
used for SIGINT.


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Re: [Lynx-dev] Installing Lynx on Macbook Air

2021-05-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin via Lynx-dev 
On 2021-05-20, at 15:43:32, Peter Morales wrote:
> 
> My name is Peter G. Morales. The reason for the email is because I am
> having some difficulty installing Lynx on my Macbook Air. Would you be able
> to help me install it, or could you point me in the direction of where I
> could learn how to install it?
>  
You might cut that Gordian knot with:
https://brew.sh/
Homebrew
The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install lynx

Remember:  https://anybrowser.org/campaign/
I remember: https://habilis.net/lynxlet/Lynxlet_0.8.1.dmg
... but last updated 2007.

> I want to install Lynx on my Macbook Air because I am starting to get
> involved with web development and I found out about your browser via MDN
> Web Docs (here
> ).
> MDN Web Docs says your browser is a text-based terminal web browser, great
> for seeing how a site looks to the visually-impaired. I know this is an
> important area for web development, which is why I would like to use your
> web browser to test code in.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] reading code section

2020-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin via Lynx-dev 
On 2020-11-20, at 16:07:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 
>> I am working with some html files that have a   section.  Is 
>> there a way to have lynx display tese areas?
> 
> lynx -dump -stdin <<\EOF
> meow
> foobarbaz
> EOF
> 
>   foo
>   bar
> 
>   baz
> 
> So, it does display the “code” blocks. The purpose of the “code”
> tag is to switch to monospaced font, which in lynx is the only
> font, so it’s effectively a nop for lynx.
>  
Perhaps more important, and not effectively a nop for lynx, it
preserves whitespace, copyint it from the HTML source to the
rendered page.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] reading code section

2020-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin via Lynx-dev 
On 2020-11-20, at 15:42:04, Tom Masterson wrote:
> 
> I am working with some html files that have a   section.  Is 
> there a way to have lynx display tese areas?  Currently even though I know 
> they are there and can see them looking at the source it just shows blanks in 
> the browser.
>  
I believe  ...  is nowadays deprecated; replaced
by  ... .  Does that work better?

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Re: [Lynx-dev] What blanks the blank spaces at the beginning of a line?

2018-10-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2018-10-27, at 19:06:29, russellbell wrote:
> 
>   Quoth Paul Gilmartin, 'Context?  Example?  Is this in HTML?
> Is it between  ...  tags?'
>   The beginning of a line before the display of characters, the
> indentation of paragraphs (or whatever) , the left side of centered
> lines, pretty much any reason to leave the beginning characters of a
> line blank.  In HTML.  Beginning with kernel 4.19 (but the same lynx!)
> when the screen changes blank space at the beginning of a line
> inherits what was previously on the screen.
>   It doesn't happen in X.  Oddly it *does* happen in blank
> characters in the middle of a line *when* that space on the screen was
> previously occupied by a colored character (such as I use lynx.lss to
> make bold, italics, links...)
>  
Clearly, there are bugs there, particularly the hangover.
But, otherwise:

This is the first line of text.
  This is the second.

can be, and properly is, rendered as

This is the first line of text.  This
is the second.

(depending on display width).  And even:

This is the first line of text.




  This is the second.

as:

This is the first line of text.
This is the second.

 ...  markup changes those rules.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] What blanks the blank spaces at the beginning of a line?

2018-10-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2018-10-27, at 10:58:25, russellbell wrote:
> 
>   Yeah, what?
>  
Context?  Example?  Is this in HTML?  Is it between  ...  tags?

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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx doesn't track use for most sites

2018-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2018-09-21, at 14:24:20, Halaasz Saandor wrote:

> 2018/09/21 11:50 ... Karen Lewellen:
>> Why would I  want The New Yorker to limit my reading?
> 
> It is not hard for me to imagine that the New Yorker would want to limit it.
> 
They want you to subscribe, either for money or for harvested
contact information.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2018-07-23, at 10:57:19, Shel Talmy wrote:
> 
> Using LYNX, I'm now shut out of more than 50% of websites I normally go to 
> for my work and it gets worse daily.
>  
Now you understand why "GDPR" starts with "GD".

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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message

2018-04-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2018-04-15, at 04:35:56, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> When I run /usr/bin/lynx or just type lynx to run lynx at command prompt that 
> strange message comes up either way.  Now when I run:
> file /usr/bin/lynx
> /usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), 
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 
> 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=5e21e28486e33341613cecfe484143b263c95040, stripped
> 
> The other application I have on the system that uses lynx heavily is surfraw 
> but how surfraw can be running a shell script in run instances described 
> above I do not know.  The hardware is an amd K8 Athelon built back I think in 
> 1994.
>  
Also,
What does "ls -l /usr/bin/lynx" say?
What does "uname -a" say?
Is it possible the message is coming from a system() call within lynx?

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, David Woolley wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:43:35
>> From: David Woolley
>>> sh: line 0: test: .: binary operator expected
>>> 
>>> On archlinux why does this happen with lynx and lynx-cur?
>>> Is lynx not yet configured correctly or is this a compile error?
>>> Is this message a warning or an error?
>>> I'm using UTF-8 if that helps any system-wide.
>> 
>> This message isn't coming from Lynx.  It is coming from a shell script.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.8.8 corrupted

2017-09-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2017-09-16, at 13:54, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> - Original Message -
> | From: "L. Blake Wilson"
> | Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 3:31:50 PM
> | 
> | It appears that the tarballs for 2.8.8 rel. 2 have been corrupted.
> 
> I don't see that (where are you looking?)
>  
Intrigued by this, I thought to verify a signature, but:

619 $ curl 
https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.gz.asc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD)
Comment: See http://lynx.isc.org/signatures.html for info

iEYEABECAAYFAlMdAkEACgkQXd+Pt2iOMaaB1gCg4TmKYtkoZ43EgLbdKohA9U6D
r7QAoN11QXq2KmLcZCtZHg4NsLaH9hws
=zD+J
-END PGP SIGNATURE-

Ah! there seem to be instructions.  So I try:

620 $ curl  http://lynx.isc.org/signatures.html
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: lynx.isc.org

Dead link?

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Re: [Lynx-dev] List-of-links encoded improperly

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On 2017-02-22, at 17:38, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:32:24PM +0200, Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote:
>> Greetings Lynx developers and users!
>> 
>> I have noticed that in `-dump` mode lynx will percent-encode reserved
>> characters in the "list of links" if `-display_charset=UTF-8` is set (or
>> perhaps any value other than ISO-8859-1). This can cause some URLs to
>> effectively break.
>> 
>> Would it perhaps be correct to simply ignore `display_charset` while
>> printing these URLs?
> 
> not really - it's generating the file (not passing it on), and is
> using a known encoding.
>  
From: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738
   2.2. URL Character Encoding Issues
...
   URLs are written only with the graphic printable characters of the
   US-ASCII coded character set. The octets 80-FF hexadecimal are not
   used in US-ASCII, and the octets 00-1F and 7F hexadecimal represent
   control characters; these must be encoded.

So non-USASCII UTF-8 characters must be encoded.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] Javascript in Lynx?

2016-12-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2016-12-19, at 07:14, Larry Darryl Lee jr wrote:

> Thanks for the reference, I'll take a look and see which features were 
> implemented.
>  
Much of Javascript concerns graphic management and is irrelevant to Lynx.

The one facility I've missed is wpad/dat-proxy.pac: Web Proxy Auto-Discovery
as I hop among access points with different requirements.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] unsupported URL scheme

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On 2013-05-13, at 05:52, Klaus-Peter Wegge wrote:
 
 a href=http://www.cenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=104:5:256312547600370;CENELEC 
 members/a
 alternative spelling:
 a href=http://www.cenelec.eu/dyn/www/f%3Fp%3D104:5:256312547600370;CENELEC 
 members/a
 
 Lynx message: unsupported url scheme.
  
Somewhere in Lynx.trace I find:

HTTP: Picked up location 'f?p=104:5:64816170326659'
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
HTAccess:  status=399
HTAccess: 'http://www.cenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=104:5:256312547600370' is a 
redirection URL.
HTAccess: Redirecting to 'f?p=104:5:64816170326659'
User message: Using f?p=104:5:64816170326659

getfile: getting f?p=104:5:64816170326659

HTParse: aName:`f?p=104:5:64816170326659'
   relatedName:`'
   want: host
HTParse:  result:`'

Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!

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Re: [Lynx-dev] site issues

2013-03-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mar 17, 2013, at 18:14, Karen Lewellen wrote:

 ahem gil?
 May I ask how you discovered this?

In Mac OS X 10.6.8 with my default browser set to
Firefox 19.0.2, I simply click on your link, http://www.expectingfitness.com/
and I get the nasty redirection.  I may have Firefox
configured in some way for safe browsing;  I don't recall.

Safari lets me in to the page.  Midori lets me in to the page.
Firefox 19.0.2 under Ubuntu Linux 12.04.2 lets me in to the page.

 I heard from someone today that they cannot see my site with firefox either.
 If google has done that to me, I may start a fire of my own.
 where or how do I Learn?
 for the record my site is,
 karenlewellen.com
  
There, I get:

501 $ nslookup
 www.karenlewellen.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Which is somewhat unexpected.  More normal would be:

501 $ nslookup
 www.karenlewellen.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I'm beyond my depth on this.


 On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
 
 On Mar 11, 2013, at 15:04, Birgitta wrote:
 
 Hi my site www.expectingfitness.com was hacked last week.
 
 Google and Firefox have you blacklisted.  Details and remedial
 action described on the page at:
 
   
 http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefoxhl=en-USsite=http://www.expectingfitness.com/
  
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Re: [Lynx-dev] site issues

2013-03-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mar 17, 2013, at 19:15, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

 On Mar 17, 2013, at 18:14, Karen Lewellen wrote:
 
 for the record my site is,
 karenlewellen.com
 
 501 $ nslookup
 www.karenlewellen.com
 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
  
Minor correction.  The www was bestowed on me by
Firefox URL guessing.  I hate that!  But still:

511 $ nslookup
  karenlewellen.com
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 4.2.2.3, trying next server
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
 

I don't understand SERVFAIL.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] site issues

2013-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mar 11, 2013, at 15:04, Birgitta wrote:

 Hi my site www.expectingfitness.com was hacked last week.
   
Google and Firefox have you blacklisted.  Details and remedial
action described on the page at:


http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefoxhl=en-USsite=http://www.expectingfitness.com/

My sympathies,
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Help with ubuntu lynx-cur and ssl

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Feb 7, 2012, at 11:44, Hans-Stefan Suhle wrote:
 
 for years, I had an automated script running with lynx.
 Yesterday, I changed from opensuse to xubuntu - and find my lynx not working!
 
 I need to access this page:
 
 https://banking.postbank.de/
 
 However, lynx always stalls - and I have no idea why it does so...
 
Hmmm.  On:

33286 $ uname -a
Linux Linux-Mac 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 15:59:53 UTC 2012 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
33287 $ 

I have:

   Information about the current document
 Lynx 2.8.8dev.9 (12 Jun 2011) (development version)

^T tells me:

Sending HTTP request.
HTTP: WRITE delivered OK
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP: Trying to read 1535
HTTP: Read 0
HTTP: Hit unexpected network read error; aborting connection; status 0:A TLS pac
ket with unexpected length was received..

Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.

HTAccess:  status=-1
Can't Access `https://banking.postbank.de/'
HTAccess: Can't access `https://banking.postbank.de/'

Alert!: Unable to access document.


It does not connect to that page; Firefox readily connects.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/lynx/ scavenged?

2011-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Jun 21, 2011, at 04:56, Thomas Dickey wrote:
 
   http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/lynx/
 
 but this is now an advertisement having little to do
 with either Cygwin or Lynx.
 
 thanks for the reminder - I did notice that when I was setting up some
 aspect of the new server, but didn't disable the links.
 
 (I generally compile a copy on Cygwin when I've updated lynx.cfg,
 so that I have an up-to-date version of the documentation, but
 use lynx most on other platforms - I can put up a copy of the binary
 if it helps).
  
You needn't bother on my account; I have plenty Lynx elsewhere.

I suppose this should go to:

http://www.cygwin.com/packages/lynx/

... but I don't know how that responsibility is shared among
cygwin.com, you, and me.

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[Lynx-dev] http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/lynx/ scavenged?

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

So I'm looking for a Lynx binary for Cygwin (too lazy to
build one, and Cygwin comes with 2.8.5).

The page at:

http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.7/index.html

links to:

http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/lynx/

but this is now an advertisement having little to do
with either Cygwin or Lynx.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] support javascript in lynx

2010-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On Nov 29, 2010, at 04:43, Thomas Dickey wrote:

 On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Giuseppe Di Ciaula wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 It's possible for lynx support javascript pages?
 
 not really.  lynx is organized much differently inside than would work
 with javascript.  The best that could be done would be to bolt-on some
 ad hoc support to handle a few cases.
  
Yup.  Javascript usually supports graphics.  An exception
for which I sometimes yearn is proxy.pac.  But that would
involve a major effort for a minor benefit.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx for MAC

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Nov 20, 2010, at 17:30, Roland Faesser wrote:
 
 ...ports to MAC are in beta test.
 Can you estimate the time of release?
  
What became of lynxlet?  Actually, I have one; it
still works on OS X 10.6.5.  It embeds Lynx 2.8.5rel.1.

The web page at http://habilis.net/lynxlet/ 
says lynxlet now embeds lynx 2.8.6r5 Stable.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML BUTTON element

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On May 28, 2009, at 05:08, Thorsten Glaser wrote:


i...@microon.net dixit:


Is this true? There is no way to make a BUTTON html tag work in Lynx.


According to my trusty SelfHTML reference, a button tag is
“totally useless without JavaScript™”, so I see no point in
rendering it to anything else.


You might be able to accomplish what you need with forms and
SUBMIT METHOD=GET.

I find it absurd that many JavaScript™” buttons simply
say OnClick open another page.  That is merely an anchor
done the hard way.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx Viewer Inquiry

2009-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On May 15, 2009, at 18:12, Robert Mortimer wrote:


Or as alternative if you can't install your own copy of lynx there is
still a public lynx client at:
lynx.scramworks.net
which you can use by telneting or SSHing to that address.

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Philip Webb wrote:


090515 daniel.t.c.hernan...@accenture.com wrote:
We are currently trying to study the text browser known as Lynx  
Viewer

introduced in this link -
http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php
basically to improve SEO on our site.
We have already tried to execute one of our existing pages in the  
tool
and we have noticed that not all page components are currently  
being shown

on the output display.  With this,
we would like to ask a couple of questions in relation to this tool:
  1. What are the components of the page
 that are currently being displayed by the text browser?
  2. What are the components of the page that are not being  
displayed?


 install it on your own computer.  If you send us the URLs of your  
pages,
probably someone (a volunteer) will test them for you  report back  
here.



Also, try validating the pages with:

http://validator.w3.org/

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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7pre.2

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On 04/26/09 10:38, Thomas Dickey wrote:

2009-04-26 (2.8.7pre.2)


lynx2.8.7pre.2 (and pre.1; I haven't gone back further) fails

http://www.lbdsoftware.com

with:

Writing:
GET / HTTP/1.0\r
Host: www.lbdsoftware.com\r
Accept: text/html, text/plain, text/css, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01\r
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress, bzip2\r
Accept-Language: en\r
Pragma: no-cache\r
Cache-Control: no-cache\r
User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.7pre.2 libwww-FM/2.14\r
\r
--
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP: WRITE delivered OK
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP: Trying to read 1535
HTTP: Read 866
HTTP: Rx: HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable

Not Acceptable

   An appropriate representation of the requested resource / could not be
   found on this server.

   Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use
   an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 ___


Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5
mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
PHP/5.2.5 Server at www.lbdsoftware.com Port 80

OK with Firefox.  Snarf works with:

== WrSock: GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.lbdsoftware.com
User-Agent: snarf/7.0 (http://www.xach.com/snarf)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

http://validator.w3.org/ reports 68 HTML errors, but that's hardly news.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] Try this URL:

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On Mar 5, 2009, at 06:16, Halász Sándor wrote:


http://www.highschoolsports.net/portal.cfm?schoolid=OH436236989
For me an altogether empty page under Lynx, but something useful
under Firefox


Depends.  Using Firefox with the NoScript add-on, I see an empty
page.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] Connect-timeout

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

On Nov 29, 2008, at 02:34, David Woolley wrote:


Dries.DeMoor wrote:

The call to the url starts some processing which takes more than 5  
hours.


Most browsers would give up after just a few minutes!

I believe there is an HTTP response (Status 100???) which allows  
one to say please wait.  If that's right and Lynx supports it, a  
better approach would be to have the application periodically send  
that response.



Dries may not have control over the server which would allow
him to do this.  But if the CGI is named nph-whatever.CGI,
he may be able to assert some control over the responses
returned by the server, and even their timing.

Do browsers manifest the please wait response to the human
viewer?  I have a similar problem; I don't know about timeout,
but while a process that may take a couple minutes runs I
issue in the HTML a blip line every few seconds to show that
the process hasn't died.  Is there a better way?


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RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.


Which is why I trimmed an address in the header.

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[Lynx-dev] PRE...shy;.../PRE

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

First, the confession:  I'm at Lynx 2.8.7dev.7; over a year old.

Now the pedantry.  The HTML snippet:

PRE
| soft#173;hyphen|
| three#32;#32;#32;spaces |
| enndash;ndash;ndash;dashes|
| emmdash;mdash;mdash;dashes|
/PRE

... renders in Lynx:

| softhyphen|
| three   spaces |
| en---dashes|
| em--dashes|

And in Firefox and Safari

| soft hyphen|
| three   spaces |
| en–––dashes|
| em———dashes|

PRE is supposed to select a monospaced font.  So, is an
en dash the same as an em dash in a monospaced font?

And all 3 browsers collapse the soft hyphen.  I wonder
whether this correct, or if it should be rendered as a
single character position, even as multiple horizontal
and vertical spaces are not collapsed in the range of
a PRE

Does some standard clarify this?  What's the printable
representation of shy; in ISO-8859-1, anyway?

(I got here trying to filter to a viewable tabular form
a file containing a mixture of binary and textual data.
I'll just convert #173; to a hard hyphen, now.)

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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx - files above 2GB in size - size reported by Lynx is not correct

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin 


On Jun 11, 2008, at 06:46, Tomas Liska wrote:


Hello,

I would like to report the issue, which I met just a few seconds  
ago. I downloaded a file, which has 4GB in size. The lynx is  
reporting the bad total size while downloading. It reports only  
2GB. Although it reports a bad file size value, the file has been  
downloaded correctly. So I assume it is not an issue of  
functionality, but it is a case of comfort of the UI.



My, my.  Does Lynx use long where fpos_t would be more suitable?

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Re: [Lynx-dev] unpacked directory name

2008-05-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin 


On May 17, 2008, at 22:05, Philip Webb wrote:

For TD : is it difficult to use a new dir name when tarring version  
files ?

I unpacked  lynx2.8.7dev.9.tar.bz2  in  /usr/local/src/
 it dumped everything into the existing  lynx2.8.7  directory,
which had been created last year by  lynx2.8.7dev.7.tar.bz2 .
Is it not easy to put everything into a dir named 'lynx2.8.7.d9'
(or whatever distinct name you prefer) before making the tar.bz2  
file ?



To each his own.  I always create a new directory having the revision
name and unpack there.  I do the unpack, configure, and build with
scripts which I would otherwise have to edit with each revision.
It shouldn't be a big thing either way.  I suppose I could use
$(dirname lynx*/configure) to track revision.

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Re: [Lynx-dev] oops?

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin 

Adam OHern wrote:

Hi folks!
Bravo, Lynx is great!
I have a tiny little problem, though: I installed it on Mac OS X.4,
and now lynx automatically pops up every time I open a new terminal
window. This means I now have no way of using the command line in OS
X, since quitting lynx quits the whole terminal session. What do I do?

I've not had this problem.  Did you build it yourself?
If not, where did you get it.

BTW, have you tried lynxlet?

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[Lynx-dev] PDF, Google, and Helper Apps

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
Frequently, I do a Google search, as for:

http://www.google.com/search?q=md5sum+z%2Fos

... and one or more of the hits says:

   Your browser may not have a PDF reader available. Google recommends  
 
   visiting our text version of this document.  

So:

o I have a PDF viewer defined in my .mailcap, but a trace shows only:

Accept: text/html, text/plain, text/css, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01\r

  What more must I do to get Lynx to accept application/pdf?

o The text version link takes me back to the query results page.
  This is a bug I should report to Google, isn't it?

Thanks,
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