Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx text formatting queries

[Jacob Poon]

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > 79 column bug? 
> > -------------- 
> >  
> > When using 80 column terminals, lynx doesn't render the last column.  I 
> > have heard that have to do with the terminal will be rendered incorrectly, 
> > but I doubt the validity for such reasoning since Pine and Ncftp have been 
> > using the very last column without any display glitches (well, at least no 
> > problems on xterm), so it seems such terminal glitch is a terminal 
> > specific problems instead of lynx source problems.  
> no - it's a limitation of some older versions of curses (weren't aware of
> line-wrapping characteristics of terminals).

Well, if that's the case, future lynx should add a compilation option for
using the last column.