Re: lynx-dev LYNX: maybe 2-column output for wide screens?

[Jacob Poon]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, David Combs wrote:

[ultra wide rows]
> The DISADVANTAGE is that it takes longer to read super-wide
> lines, in that when your eye jumps back to the left for the
> next line, you sometimes have to spend some subconscious-maybe
> effort FINDING that next line -- you might start reading the
> SAME line again...
> 
> Now, with emacs on this wide screen, I use follow.el (follow-mode)
> and C-x 3 to give myself two columns on the screen, with roughly
> 78 columns on each side.  I really like this method.
> 
> Question: what about two columns for lynx?
> 
> would anyone other than myself like it?

I suspect many do, since it can mean one step closer to better table
formatting, but that's another story.  Until then, we still need someone
to do it...