Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "\"-html-screen truncates

[Doug Kaufman]

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 address@hidden wrote:

>>Maybe I am missing the point. Right now, you can see the source
>>wrapped. It is there, just off the screen with no way to scroll right.
>>Just "print" to less. You can then see the full source, either wrapped
>
> But why the heck should you have to do this?
> 
> Isn't HTML source "white space ignoring"? So if you simply wrap the
> lines (not even at word breaks necessarily), you're not giving an
> *incorrect* view in any way.

The point is that lynx is not a text file viewer. Html source is
frequently wider than the screen, but lynx has no code to scroll left
or right. Less and most are designed as text file readers which have
this ability built in. Lynx already uses external programs for many
functions (e.g. telnet, sendmail). If we try to put in code for this,
it has to be maintained. I believe that most users would want "\"
to give an exact picture of what the source actually is; otherwise
problems might be obscured by your proposed rendering of the source
into a file that fits on the screen.
                           Doug
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