Re: LYNX-DEV re SEEING "/"-search results

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

Yes. You could build TERMCAP environment variable that uses highlighting
more to your liking. I agree, however, that lynx could use the margin to
highlight matches. Perhaps the entire line containing the match could be
shown standout with the match in regular text?

On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, David Combs wrote:

> I've had a problem with this for some time: I do
> a /foo search on a page, where say there's lots
> of reverse-printed stuff (black-backgrounded characaters),
> with the "found" occurrences of "foo" now having been
> underlined -- well, I don't know about anyone else,
> but I find it almost IMPOSSIBLE to SEE the darn things.
> 
> I mean, sometimes I just print it out to a file and then
> egrep or vi, etc, just to do my search, then fg back
> into lynx to use the info I found out.
> 
> I don't know how much room there is out to the right
> side of the text on the screen usually (I have plenty),
> but maybe some character stuck out into column endCol + 2,
> say, would then make it MUCH easier to find those lines
> that have the found "foo".
> 
> Some character like "|" (user-definable).
> 
> Anyone else think something like this would be a help?
>  
> 
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lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

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