[Lynx-dev] internal state not cleared across tags

Example: foo This renders as: baz [bar] meow I would expect the empty img tag to be dropped/ignored, or at most result in “[]” as lynx does when removing line 4. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin

Re: [Lynx-dev] comments ended by >, not -->

rbell--- via Lynx-dev dixit: > lynx ends comments at the first > , instead of --> Toggle historic vs. minimal comment parsing. bye, //mirabilos -- "Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of shades: cuts out the glare and harmful UV (ultra-vanity), and you feel so-o-o COOL."

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.9.1 build issues

Thomas Dickey dixit: >I use this (at the moment, only recall that CONFIG_SHELL is needed for >the configure script): > >case .$SHELL in >.*/sh) > ;; >*) > SHELL=/bin/sh > test -f /usr/xpg4/bin/sh && SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh > ;; >esac > >export SHELL >CONFIG_SHELL=$SHELL

Re: [Lynx-dev] Adding a style

rbell--- via Lynx-dev dixit: > NEJM has started using to demarcate the >beginning of a paragraph. lynx renders this the same as , which >makes it hard to read. That’s correct for s in general, though: upon encountering the start tag, if not at column 1, emit a newline. Tell NEJM to use

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx corrupts bookmark file

Dixi quod… >If I use an ul instead, it doesn’t seem to do that, but >sometimes I get… > >[…] >last entry before adding one from lynx > >newly-added entry > > >… instead, which is also disturbing. It also seems to insist to close the ul in my bookmark file with a /ol. >I honestly preferred it

[Lynx-dev] lynx corrupts bookmark file

Another one, probably new (maybe when lynx started adding ending tags): I sometimes hand-edit my bookmarks file to put in new links or extra information, or even to give structure to some entries making them sub-entries etc. So now I have: […] blabla; details: one two

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unable to Save Charactor Set Changes?

Hi Chime, > Debian SID version, however, over on Shellworld running yes, I have the same problem. You need the precise line… ENABLE_LYNXRC:ASSUME_CHARSET:ON … in /etc/lynx/local.cfg on Debian to be able to save that from the options menu. I’m attaching my full local.cfg in case someone is

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (title bar)

Chime Hart dixit: > I wish they hadn't changed the bottom of the screen. […] That’s the bug I already sent a patch for that fixes it for me, which TD says he’ll review and apply if good. So it’s temporary. How or where do you get your lynx package from? Perhaps the packager could apply the

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (title bar)

Dixi quod… >It happened again in a long-running-ish lynx instance (a bit >less than five days). Even more interestingly, I am now on a page with a still long but slightly shorter title, and it reads: This is Water - just_got_nargled - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]... (p

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (title bar)

Dixi quod… >so apparently something happened *during* the session to break >it‽ It happened again in a long-running-ish lynx instance (a bit less than five days). bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜ The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜ And the distance between the craziness

Re: [Lynx-dev] An error with temporary file

Riku Virtanen dixit: > /usr/bin/brotli -j -d /tmp/lynx6fQBBD/L1617-7134TMP.html.br Is /usr/bin/brotli installed and usable? (I’ve not enabled that in my build. If it relies on an external utility, perhaps it should not @ Debian packagers) bye, //mirabilos -- If Harry Potter gets a

Re: [Lynx-dev] An error with temporary file

Philip Webb dixit: >It works for me with 2.9.0_pre12-r1 installed via Gentoo Linux. Same for me with 2.9.0 release. first 10. Using https://www.tripadvisor.com/ then #Tripadvisor: Over a billion reviews & contributions for Hotels, Attractions, Restaurants, and more (p1 of 7) The OP

Re: [Lynx-dev] shell stuff

Thomas Dickey dixit: >> source="`echo "$source" | sed -e 's%/$%%'`/" >> >> You m̲u̲s̲t̲ ̲n̲o̲t̲ use double quotes both outside and inside of an >> old-style command substitution: some shells pair them as >> "`echo " and " | sed -e 's%/$%%'`/" instead of nesting, and >> POSIX actively allows that.

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

Dixi quod… >Thomas Dickey dixit: > >>The current version of lynx is 2.9.0 btw should that not have been 2.9.0rel.1 following the usual versioning scheme? Otherwise it will still need to be named that for Debian, and 2.9.1dev.* will need to be renamed into 2.9.1~dev.* so the 2.9.1 release with

[Lynx-dev] shell stuff

Hi, while scrolling through a diff to see if I can find the cause of a regression, I saw this (pasting only one example of it): source="`echo "$source" | sed -e 's%/$%%'`/" You m̲u̲s̲t̲ ̲n̲o̲t̲ use double quotes both outside and inside of an old-style command substitution: some shells pair them

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2-9-0: -assume_charset= does not override in-document charset=

Steffen Nurpmeso dixit: >> But editing a document to get it -dump'ed out correctly, that is no >> good. You’d be surprised at the amounts of changes I have to do to some pages for them to lead to correct results… Mouse dixit: >Well...the real offender here is whatever led to serving 8859-*

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

Thomas Dickey dixit: >> This is a regression and makes me think I’m on a link. > >I don't recall this being commented on before (a mailing-list link helps). ?! It’s a regression against the earlier snapshot, i.e. a new bug. >> I haven’t yet run into the issue that http-without-s connections >>

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

Thomas Dickey dixit: >The current version of lynx is 2.9.0 When on a page with no link, the status bar stays the same as before, whereas, in older versions, it would change to… -- press space for more, use arrow keys to move, '?' for help, 'q' to quit. This is a regression and makes me think

Re: [Lynx-dev] Support .mhtml

Jude DaShiell dixit: >Your .mailcap file is missing instructions to properly display the >extension that's on that file. I only know that MSIE could display MHTML, unfortunately no other program supports them. I think this is a feature request to add support for them to lynx. The format is dead

Re: [Lynx-dev] Extract links from html with application/ld+json script

David Woolley dixit: > Lynx does not even have a JSON interpreter and I'm sure it doesn't > have a JSON pretty printer. Yeah, that’s totally out of scope. Use tools like cURL / GNU wget, sed/tidy/xmlstarlet to extract the JSON, jq to parse it, instead. bye, //mirabilos -- Support mksh as

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (title bar)

Thomas Dickey dixit: >On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:13:28AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Another regression I noticed is the page count is missing >> from the title bar: > >a url would help to reproduce this https://archiveofourown.org/works/51498937/chapters/13077

[Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (title bar)

Another regression I noticed is the page count is missing from the title bar: old: The serpents' den - Chapter 3 - jammerific - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [A... (p5 of 24)│ new: The serpents' den - Chapter 3 - jammerific - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our │ (window border

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (http redir)

Here’s more: $ lynx http://archiveofourown.org/works/51973378 >>Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. With both links2 and Firefox, I get a huge delay followed by a redirect to https://… whereas lynx *consistently* throws the network error (https works ofc). A quick nc -v

[Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (^S)

Hi, another regression I noticed: ^S (XOFF) no longer works. I use this to temporarily stop messages, so I can copy them to PRIMARY (or CLIPBOARD) using the mouse, most often on the targets of redirections. This probably has to do something with this changelog entry… * modify curses

[Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (http redir)

Hi, I do notice a regression in the dev snapshot: whenever I have, say, a Google search result page where a link goes first to their redirector and then to an http page, I get: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. Navigating to the page directly works, and a second attempt

Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.9.0dev.12m regression (http redir)

Dixi quod… >a Google search result page where a link goes first to their >redirector and then to an http page, I get: > >Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. OK, that may not be the cause. I just did a… $ lynx http://www.google.com/search?[…] … and got the same error; a

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and webmail interfaces?

Karen Lewellen dixit: > my current access to both pine and alpine are tied to shellworld entirely, or > via the dreamhost shell service provided to my office. OK. If you can use these for eMail, you’ll be good then. > The question seems to be if it can be configured to access gmail, > including

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and webmail interfaces?

Karen Lewellen dixit: > There is a thread over at DOS ain't dead about providers who still have web > interfaces, using roundcube or squirrel mail, someone even spoke of fastmail. > Anyone know of either an email service that incorporates these lower graphics Is using pine a possibility? (I

Re: [Lynx-dev] extremely long a/@href

Thomas Dickey dixit: >This is a "development" list. If you want to test development changes, >they are in my git snapshots. I hadn’t known there was a fix already. I’ve built dev.12m and tested it and it fixes my problem. Thanks, //mirabilos -- you introduced a merge commit│ % g

[Lynx-dev] extremely long a/@href

Hi, the search functionality on otwarchive sites like archiveofourown.org or www.squidgeworld.org produces extremely long links, easily 2.5K or longer. (These are produced by submitting a form.) The page from that now contains 2.5K-long relative links:

Re: [Lynx-dev] Looking for a keymap entry to run a script

Dan Dunfee dixit: >Could someone provide an example keymap entry to run a shell script from >within lynx? Why not just press ^Z to suspend lynx temporarily, or open a new GNU screen / tmux tab, terminal, ssh session, etc. instead? Just running a shell script is nothing that needs lynx to do.

[Lynx-dev] mis-handling of combining characters

Hi, in the attached excerpt, stripped down to almost the minimum to experience it, the combining characters in the “Zalgo” part seem to be considered as adding to the line width, therefore breaking too early: “Ȩ̶̛ņ̶̛Ơ̶̙U̶̡ g̵̢H̷̳” Shikamaru entoned with fury. His were black pools that

Re: [Lynx-dev] non-breaking space breaks justification

David Woolley dixit: >> I don’t really; justification is what lynx does and indent is >> what the fanfiction author did. > > That was my initial thought, but then I read more carefully, I saw: > >> So the three modes of U+00A0 handling are: >> >> • do not indent lines with U+00A0 on them (current

Re: [Lynx-dev] non-breaking space breaks justification

Ian Collier dixit: >What's awful about that is you've formatted it for more than 80 columns... That’s because I read my fanfiction in a 90×35 uxterm (minus one line for GNU screen hardstatus), which is the widest that is readable for me without losing the lines upon going to the next one.

[Lynx-dev] nōn-breaking space breaks justification

Some fanfiction is written like this: [10*U+00A0][the actual long paragraph text] This is physical formatting done by the author to achieve some kind of first-line indentation for the paragraphs, and it is annoying. This renders okay-ish in lynx, but the first p line is thus not justified,

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Lennart Jablonka dixit: > I see we are in agreement that > > is not /invalid/ due to omission of space before /> or due to self-closing It’s not a valid webpage. It’s an XML document, but not a webpage. > I read that

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Lennart Jablonka dixit: > Handling XHTML approximately by treating it as HTML-syntax HTML may be useful > in stead of refusing to handle XHTML, but that is not implementing XHTML. Yes, but the onus is on the *server* to provide the data in a format the client can handle because native

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Lennart Jablonka dixit: >> Yes, but then it MUST send HTML-compatible things or it’s not >> an XHTML page. As simple as that. (I also serve my XHTML as >> text/html always and just write it in compatible mode.) > > I don’t buy this. What is and isn’t XHTML isn’t dependent on what the > client

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Hi again! Lennart, you nerdsniped me. Dixi quod… >Lennart Jablonka dixit: >>> I’m not sure whether it may then also self-close all tags but would >>> assume so (except I know tech is… tricky). >> >> As in an XML document, and are entirely equivalent, >> yes, >> the server may then

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Lennart Jablonka dixit: > as is the case for lynx Nope: HTTP_ACCEPT='text/html, text/plain, text/sgml, text/css, */*;q=0.01' > Also, I’m under the impression that content > negotiation à la Accept is entirely optional—the server is free to ignore Yes, but then it MUST send HTML-compatible

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Lennart Jablonka dixit: > And here I thought that all of XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML5 XML syntax, and > WHATWG HTML XML syntax defer parsing to the XML processor. As usual, it depends. Iff the browser requests XHTML served as XML, that is, if the browser sends an HTTP Accept header that contains

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Shlomi Fish dixit: >> > lynx >> > https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ongoing-text.html >> > still misrenders. OK, I had a look at this now. Your file is well-formed XML, but neither valid for webbrowsers (due to the omission of the space before “/>” self-closing tags)

Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - Flickering when resizing the terminal window lynx is running in

Thomas Dickey dixit: >> I remember sending you? the list? a typescript of this happening >> in xterm. > >iirc, that used OpenBSD's hack which disables ncurses's SIGWINCH handler. Nope, I’m on a Debian stable system at the moment and can easily reproduce it. bye, //mirabilos -- If Harry Potter

Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - Flickering when resizing the terminal window lynx is running in

Thomas Dickey dixit: >I don't see it with xterm, at any rate. I remember sending you? the list? a typescript of this happening in xterm. bye, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)

Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - Flickering when resizing the terminal window lynx is running in

hacksenw...@posteo.de dixit: >Thank you for lynx, I love it! We all do! >When lynx is already running in that terminal and I resize the window, That also happens in xterm on Debian; I reported that some time ago and someone else too. No fix so far. bye, //mirabilos -- „Cool,

Re: [Lynx-dev] Ot: how email size is established?

Hi Karen, > I am sending a file that is slightly larger than 7 meg. > However I am getting a users.shellworld.net error claiming that the file > exceeds the slightly above 10 meg size restriction. this is rather offtopic, but, yes, files sent by email are enlarged by four thirds because of the

Re: [Lynx-dev] view full url instead of short in webpage

jindam vani via Lynx-dev dixit: >How? Chage user mode to advanced, or use the ] key or the l key. Or probably more different ways… these three are the ones I have at the top of my head. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx on xfce terminal freezes during "making https connection to..."

jindam, vani via Lynx-dev dixit: > the issue: xfce terminal freezes during "making https connection to..." using That’s independent of the terminal and the website in question. It occasionally happens for some sites; for most, it works on the second try. Unfortunately, ‘z’ and ^G don’t work to

Re: [Lynx-dev] Images in Lynx

David Woolley dixit: > On 20/02/2023 16:54, aalin...@riseup.net wrote: >> I am curious as to why some images on web pages have links one can >> click on to view the image (I use nsxiv) while others simply say >> "Image" and offer a description but no link to activate the image. > > I think that is

Re: [Lynx-dev] A VCS for lynx

Axel Beckert dixit: >Hi, > >On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:38:24PM +, Tom Schwindl wrote: >> But if you guys prefer CVS, that'd be fine for me too, as long as it's not >> SVN ;). Word! >> I wonder if there is interest in a VCS for doing development work. > >AFAIK Lynx is actually developed

Re: [Lynx-dev] urls longer than 1024 characters

Travis Siegel dixit: > but all of that is kind of moot, considering Apache only allows lengths of > 4,000 characters. Apache used to be 1024. > I'd guess allowing lynx to handle 4K characters would solve most issues with Which is the maximum length lynx handles, then? bye, //mirabilos -- >

Re: [Lynx-dev] urls longer than 1024 characters

Jude DaShiell dixit: >url is longer than 1024 characters offer to send the long url to an url >shortening service That’s not the issue here… an URL shortening service would also just redirect the browser to the long URL, therefore not eliminating the problem. bye, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜

Re: [Lynx-dev] a solution for this problem?

Karen Lewellen dixit: > Only way I could share it is as an attachment, its something like three pages > of characters. I guess that’s just too long then. Links (GET requests specifically) aren’t required to work if they’re above 1024 characters long. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein

Re: [Lynx-dev] a solution for this problem?

Karen Lewellen dixit: > In fact, the error, badly formed address, Could be a data: URL, but, of course, without you sharing the link in question, we cannot know. bye, //mirabilos -- > Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselves and not packaged > with other products? No, the only way

Re: [Lynx-dev] in overrides from

rbell--- via Lynx-dev dixit: >title it finds. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to >make it use the first, gave up. Hmm. Maybe the last, but recognise the element inside the only and ignore it when found in the ? bye, //mirabilos (buried too deep in other projects to have a look)

Re: [Lynx-dev] Converting Unicode characters to ASCII: Control Pictures block

Tim Chase dixit: >but it looks like it causes weird behaviors. Huh? Works well for me. It just outputs the character, which is a printable character. Are you sure you have your terminal and lynx in UTF-8 mode both? bye, //mirabilos -- "Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of shades:

Re: [Lynx-dev] unable to launch website from bookmarks

jindam, vani via Lynx-dev dixit: >* it never occured to me try "d" >download option inspite Thorsten No, it’s not “download”, rather the contrary. a + l means add the link currently under the cursor to the bookmarks, which was a download of some XML file which happens to be the first link on

Re: [Lynx-dev] unable to launch website from bookmarks

jindam, vani via Lynx-dev dixit: >press "a" >press "l" ← no, "d" bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n… gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert~~~

Re: [Lynx-dev] Asking about printing HTTP communications when browsing an URL

River Chiang dixit: >I'd like to ask about howto print HTTP communications between the >client and the server when browsing an URL. That’s the scope of tools like tcpdump -X or Burp. bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜ The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜ And the distance

Re: [Lynx-dev] ot: w3m question?

Jude DaShiell dixit: >is I think an accessibility problem of w3m. Do not worry, I am sighted yet have not figured out how to actually use www-wo-miru yet; lynx (while sometimes slow) gives me the best overall results, I use links (the chain) occasionally but only for specific purposes. bye,

Re: [Lynx-dev] Keystroke to search via search engine

Tim Chase dixit: >I usually do this with an alias or shell function to populate the > > >GET parameters, like

Re: [Lynx-dev] Location of history log

woodsrs via Lynx-dev dixit: >I wasn't able, however, to find any reference in the onlime >documentation to the location in the file system where the history log >is stored while lynx is not running. That’s because lynx doesn’t store it like that ;-) (I’d find it annoying if it did, even.) bye,

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx blinking after terminal window resizing

Thomas Dickey dixit: >> I see it on Debian stable/bullseye, for example. > >I still don't see it with this combination. Huh. >The blinking that you're describing would be full-screen repainting. Yes. I can verify that it does that in a typescript (attached). I started lynx in an 80x24, moved

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

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

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx blinking after terminal window resizing

Thomas Dickey dixit: >On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 03:16:40AM +0300, mark zaharov wrote: >> here is the solution which my friend provides. He said it works well with >> slang and this bug exists for ncurces only. Huh, I didn’t get that mail. >Perhaps this would be reproducible if the version of

Re: [Lynx-dev] dev.to website doesn't load, full support for HTML5?

Robin Stern dixit: >A buzzing developer website https://dev.to does not load in lynx, Complain to the author, they’re blocking lynx with 403 error from server. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich

Re: [Lynx-dev] For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws

Travis Siegel dixit: > On 7/17/2022 2:47 PM, Chime Hart wrote: >> Well, Travis, don't you love it when even when you view a news-letter >> as html, they still write-and-say "you haven't opened an e-mail in a >> long time"? Like, who are they kidding? Chime >> > Yeah, honestly, I get that a lot..

Re: [Lynx-dev] latest mac edition of Lynx?

Hi Karen, > To be forthright, I have no idea what fink is, nor have I heard of macports. both are methods of packaging up commonly-available software for Mac OSX, which does not have any repository for third-party software like, for example, most GNU/Linux distributions do. There are others

Re: [Lynx-dev] latest mac edition of Lynx?

Karen Lewellen dixit: > All I asked for the guy on the mac vision list was the current mac os that > lynx > has been tested with, and the edition of lynx... There’s no editions of lynx, other than doslynx because that needs special adaptions, and, perhaps, the old maclynx for systems from the

Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx vs Links vs w3m

Softwafe Engineer dixit: >Why do you prefer lynx over another terminal browsers like w3m or links? lynx is *much* easier to use than w3m and still a lot better to use than any links flavour. I personally *do* use links+ -g as manga viewer, but not much else. It has a somewhat better table

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx blinking after terminal window resizing

Thomas Dickey dixit: >On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 03:43:43PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Tim dixit: >> >> >Hello. I've faced up with isssue. When resize my terminal window with >> >lynx or change the font then lynx start blinking on each navigation. How >&g

Re: [Lynx-dev] image viewer on GNU systems, the nᵗʰ

Hi XTaran, >> I’m puzzling as this is different from lynx on MirBSD. > >Could it be this change by Debian? > >-#GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap >+GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/etc/mailcap you hit the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Appending… GLOBAL_MAILCAP: … to /etc/lynx/local.cfg fixes

[Lynx-dev] image viewer on GNU systems, the nᵗʰ

Hi *, something seems to be wrong with the Debian package of lynx. I’ve already put… XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xloadimage -quiet %s … into /etc/lynx/local.cfg but it loads images in gimp out of all things when doing 'lynx http://path/to/somefile.jpg' This is a somewhat fresh install (of bullseye),

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx blinking after terminal window resizing

Tim dixit: >Hello. I've faced up with isssue. When resize my terminal window with >lynx or change the font then lynx start blinking on each navigation. How >to fix it? Aaaah, so *that’s* why it sometimes blinks. Sorry for not having any solution either, but I’m glad I didn’t just imagine that

Re: [Lynx-dev] 'File exists. Overwrite? (y/n)'

Chime Hart dixit: > Well, maybe best of both worlds, y/n/a for append. Also cancel. This is the point. I know ^G too, though… bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Shlomi Fish dixit: >3. it validates: Possibly with some validators. Not all check everything. >so it seems like it is a lynx bug Perhaps, or just a missing feature; lynx is mostly an HTML 3/4 browser and hypertext information system, after all, there’s no explicit support for, nor

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many valid xhtml5 pages on my site

Chuck Houpt dixit: >The issue is self-closing syntax, which is ok in XML, but not in HTML. They’re not valid per the DTD either, which a DTD-checking XML validator would flag. (At least for XHTML/1.1, I don’t do this 5 nōnsense.) Best address this on the document generator side. This will break

Re: [Lynx-dev] Japanese line wrap patch for UTF-8 terminal

Henry dixit: >is rendered as JJ[space]JJ[space]JJ, You probably mean JJ[newline][space]JJ[…], right? >but I hope for JJ, i.e., continuous text without spaces. Try the -nomargins option. Good luck, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk

Re: [Lynx-dev] How to force empty line after etc.?

Sven Hartrumpf dixit: >RenaissanceScientist discovered many things. > >This markup is strange, but valid. TIL this is indeed valid (li can carry Flow.mix which includes h2). I think this triggers the longstanding known issue in lynx where block-level elements within paragraph-ish elements don’t

Re: [Lynx-dev] How to force empty line after etc.?

Hi Sven, >Renaissance > Scientists discovered the ... it does this for me. When I write these precise two lines into a file say x.htm and lynx it I get it rendered as: - Renaissance, centred, yellow on black (as is usual for h1) - blank line - "Scientists discovered the ...", regular text

Re: [Lynx-dev] SOCK5 crash+fix

Gisle Vanem dixit: >> 'HTSprintf0(NULL,..)' looks okay to me, but crashes >> on some condition anyway. Some Runtime-Checks that gets >> confused (?). > > I think I found the cause of it: > > --- orig/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTString.c 2021-06-09 22:16:06 > +++

Re: [Lynx-dev] SOCK5 crash+fix

Steffen Nurpmeso dixit: > |socks5_protocol = HTSprintf0(NULL, > | gettext("(for %s at %s) SOCKS5"), > | protocol, socks5_host); > | > |A NULL-ptr read which I fail to understand. Which is NULL here, the target variable (does

[Lynx-dev] entities not decoded in images’ inline things

$ print '' | lynx -dump -stdin -image_links [1][foobar] References 1. file:///tmp/lynxuCeoIy/foo The reference is correct, the text printed inline isn’t. bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich

Re: [Lynx-dev] Question marks in local source filenames

rt correctly (“lynx foo?.htm” is correctly expanded to file://localhost/home/«me»/foo%3F.htm in ‘V’). >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 01:32:34PM +, David Woolley wrote: >> On 13/02/2022 04:00, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> > This is of course a bug, local filenames are unconstrained >>

[Lynx-dev] Question marks in local source filenames

lynx is unable to show local *.htm{,l} files whose filename contains a question mark as HTML, it insists on plaintext without the plus signs for wrapping (only difference when pressing backslash). This is of course a bug, local filenames are unconstrained other than not containing NUL and slash

Re: [Lynx-dev] configure-script issue

Thomas Dickey dixit: >I created the macro after dealing with users who would put C preprocessor >options in $CC I think that, if you even want to detect it, you should only warn for it. We sell rope so the user can shoot himself into the foot, after all. > (which for lynx will cause it to not

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx word bleeding?

Hi Karen, > if the content is still there. I think I understand the problem, and I have hit it as well on a visual display. Basically, yes, when you scroll, sometimes previous content is not erased if the new line is shorter than the old line. This probably has to do with both the way lynx is

Re: [Lynx-dev] External dowloaders

Luke, Shellworld Support dixit: >If so, I don't think it can be done. It can. >That suggests that lynx *always* downloads the file by its own means, >before using your downloader. Right… DOWNLOADER:View in less:less -f '%s':FALSE DOWNLOADER:View in xloadimage:xloadimage -quiet

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected network read error when accessing https on Ubuntu 16.04.

Luke at Shellworld Support dixit: >On Fri, 14 Jan 2022, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> Do you build lynx yourself or do you use/backport packages? > >I have been pulling pre-built X64 binaries from Buster, bionic, etc. repo That’s very likely to not work, since the environmen

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected network read error when accessing https on Ubuntu 16.04.

Hi, >I am running an older Ubuntu system (16.04), serving some users with >Newer versions of lynx (seemingly anything after 2.8.9.dev16 inclusive) >will not open https URLs. > >All the lib dependencies are exceeded, and earlier versions (such as >2.8.9.dev9) do work, but have started running

Re: [Lynx-dev] Display of some multi-line links is cut off in the middle

KIHARA Hideto dixit: >Reverting following change solves the problem. >- strcat(linedata, p); >+ for (i = 0; (linedata[i] = p[i]) != '\0'; ++i) ; The lower line is a strcpy inlined, not a strcat, so probably a bogus refactor… (that being said, I’d prefer if new code used

[Lynx-dev] AF selection

Hi, can we *please* have -4 and -6 options for lynx? Thanks, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n… gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert~~~ (as of

Re: [Lynx-dev] How to Set vi as editor

Martin McCormick dixit: >I have forgotten what to set to feed an ASCII text file to a text >input form in lynx. ^Xe bye, //mirabilos -- Gestern Nacht ist mein IRC-Netzwerk explodiert. Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, darum bin ich blutverschmiert… wer konnte ahnen, daß SIE so reagier’n…

Re: [Lynx-dev] sudden site access failure:

Karen Lewellen dixit: > you will get a list of stories with comparative aspects, just choose one then > share what happens. I can reproduce this: the start page works, the story pages get the cloudflare block. I am certain FFN does this deliberately, as their support also didn’t respond when I

Re: [Lynx-dev] sudden site access failure: realclearpolitics.com

Jude DaShiell dixit: >I wonder, if a cell phone used the same ip to go to a site and solved the >captcha with the higher graphics browser would the low/no graphics browser >on the same ip also have to solve a captcha? I tried that with Firefox and lynx on the same laptop. It doesn’t work.

Re: [Lynx-dev] [cookies?] unable to log in in http://board.flatassembler.net/

Sylvain BERTRAND dixit: >field, but if I do enable links2 cookie-saving, I can see the session cookie in >the cookie save file (after exiting links2). I suspect some redirections did Can you transplant these to lynx’ cookie file, and does the site work then? If so, we’ll at least know it’s just

Re: [Lynx-dev] [cookies?] unable to log in in http://board.flatassembler.net/

Thomas Dickey dixit: >(it's not related to user-agent...). Recompiling those (to capture the >actual headers _they_ see) would be simpler than firefox... > >That's something I'd do on the weekend. It’s an HTTP site, so tcpdump -X is your friend. For HTTPS sites, the Burp suite as proxy usually

Re: [Lynx-dev] shebang URL hash - #!

David Woolley dixit: >> Tell them it requires ECMAscript and therefore violates basic >> accessibility principles. > > Unfortunately, the W3C web accessibility initiative hasn't taken that position They’re not everyone. You know how many lynx users cannot evade to something else with ECMAscript

Re: [Lynx-dev] shebang URL hash - #!

Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit: > It is just introduced in the brand new document management systems of ISO, > CEN/CENELEC and many european national standards organisation. Tell them it requires ECMAscript and therefore violates basic accessibility principles. And don’t hold your breath for even any

Re: [Lynx-dev] shebang URL hash - #!

Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit: > #! is called the shebang URL hash, used to hint to search engines that There’s no such thing as a “shebang hash”. This is simply a hash that starts with an exclamation mark. Normally, a hash in an URI (scheme:authority/path?query#hash) would be resolved by a

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