LYNX-DEV TEXTAREA element handling

[Natarajan Krishnaswami]

Greetings,

I noticed a problem with the handling of newlines in a TEXTAREA
element in lynx 2.8.1dev2: all of the trailing and preceding newlines
are removed [src/HTML.c, lines 6348-6360].  I seem to recall reading
that only the (one of each) preceding and the trailing newlines should
be ignored here, and parsing a sample HTML document with nsgmls seems
to confirm this.  A patch follows:

--- src/HTML.c.orig     Sat Mar 21 15:29:48 1998
+++ src/HTML.c  Sat Mar 21 15:30:35 1998
@@ -6346,15 +6346,15 @@
                                                    me->UsePlainSpace, 
me->HiddenValue);

            /*
-            *  Trim any trailing newlines and
-            *  skip any lead newlines. - FM
+            *  Trim a leading newline and
+            *  skip a trailing newline, if present. - NK
             */
            if (*data != '\0') {
                cp = (data + strlen(data)) - 1;
-               while (cp >= data && *cp == '\n') {
+               if (cp >= data && *cp == '\n') {
                    *cp-- = '\0';
                }
-               while (*data == '\n') {
+               if (*data == '\n') {
                    data++;
                }
            }