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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 20:16:38 -0400 (EDT)

980506 Foteos Macrides <address@hidden> wrote:
> Another thing that's wanted is a way to wrap long lines
> when source ('\') is toggled for text/html
> and you don't plan to pass that to an external text/plain viewer.
> One way to handle everything without using up another command key is
> to have '\' invoke a prompt which offers you the relevant options
> when the document is thought to be text/html versus text/plain
> based on a Content-Type header, suffix map, or default assumption.
> Since the source toggle isn't used really often,
> interposing a prompt wouldn't be a terrible pain in the neck
> (no worse than clicking for pull-downs to make homologous choices with GUIs).
 
what an excellent suggestion, which elegantly kills a second bird too.
are you willing to take a brief break from retirement to implement it
or perhaps point the rest of us to the relevant areas of code (smile)?

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