Re: lynx-dev lynx: bookmarks: add today's date to entry.

[Michael Warner]

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998, David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:

        [...]

> Whether or not one has one or several bookmark files,
> I imagine it would be helpful to have appended to
> the title, the date the boomark was added.
> 
> Something real compact, eg today might be 13aug98 (er,
> 13aug1998, I suppose -- although 13aug98 or 13aug04
> is certainly obvious enough, especially since we'll all be
> dead by the time it becomes ambiguous :-)  )
> 
> Anyone agree that this would be useful?
> Any other ideas, better ideas, that is?

I don't know that I'd have much use for it, but how about
sticking the date in a "title" attribute in the anchor?  As
far as I can tell, the title attribute can be used for
more-or-less arbitrary information about the URL.

The format for a line in the bookmark file would become:

<LI><A href="where-ever" title="19980815">Anchor Text</a>

(format == `date +%Y%m%d`)

Then the file could be sorted, or otherwise manipulated, on
whatever combination of URL, date, &/or "Anchor Text" suited
the individual's need.

-- 
Michael Warner 
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