Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug

[Philip Webb]

970415 Hiram Lester wrote:
>   Since this seems to be such a troublesome issue (I've been bitten as
>   well), why can't we add a comment to the beginning of the file similar to
>   what Netscape does that says not to edit the file or at least not to
>   change the format of the file or removing bookmarks may not work properly.
>   Netscape has some comment about "This is a Netscape's bookmark file.  It
>   is generated automatically.  Do not edit this file by hand."

that's more than we need:

970416 Al Gilman wrote:   
> The present state of affairs is unsafe enough that some such warning
> is a good idea.  I am not totally sure about the flat "do not edit..."
> because
> - the <OL> formatting with links-are-numbered is bad
> - re-ordering one's bookmarks is a useful thing that requires hand editing.
> 
> So I would prefer if we can come up with the right short list of things
> that can be safely done by hand, that we write that up and say "do
> not edit by hand without first consulting {some document reference}.

yup, that IS what's needed:
you can delete a whole line & you can edit within a line,
but anything else -- eg adding comments, moving parts of lines --
may cause problems; & an explicit warning to check that  r  has removed
the intended line should also be included.

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