Re: lynx-dev horizontal scrolling stuff

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Mon Aug 10 17:58:34 1998
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:57:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
> 
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David Combs wrote:
> 
> > Has to do with wanting to VIEW the stuff at MY terminal's width
> > (132), but for SOME of the www-pages, I want to EMAIL them off,
> > but only 80-wide.  The problem ends up being VI.
> > 
> > The way it is now, I have to ^Z, set cols from 132 to 80 (assuming'
> > I look at things on line "wide", but when I want to P(rint) stuff
> > to a file and then email that to someone with a normal 80-wide
> > screen, I of course have to reformat it narrow) ---
> > this "global" narrow-setting (via shell) done ONLY to get
> > lynx, on the fg back into it, to sense it, and then
> > a ^R gets lynx to reformat it narrow (80), after which
> > I p(rint) it to file.
> > 
> > HOWEVER, before I do the email, I want to remove stuff
> > like ten million "references:" stuff, junk at the top
> > (advertisements, other links they want me to go to maybe),
> > equal stuff at the bottom, etc -- so I do a VI on that
> > p(rinted) file, and clean it up.
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do. Isn't
> it easier to print your file, put it in vi, and do ":%!par 72", then
> finish cleaning up the editing? This should give you a 72 column wide
> text file. This assumes par available on your system.
>                            Doug

I don't know this "par"; I sometimes use "fmt".

Nice when the stuff is just paragraphs of text; lotsl of
times, though, there are indented lists, etc, and THAT
needs to be formatted by an html formatter -- eg lynx.

David


(just did "man par", found  nothing).