Re: lynx-dev RE: "remove the r command"

[Philip Webb]

981111 Klaus Weide wrote:
> Primitive or not, <the bookmark file> is the only case
> where Lynx tries to change an existing html file.
> The function that does the removing gets passed just a filename
> and the number of the link to remove.
> It works surprisingly well nearly all the time.
> If you have a proposal for a better implementation,
> esp one that doesn't create a bunch of new problems, let's hear it.

981212 Larry Virden wrote: 
> The problem isn't the bookmark file, which is indeed just html.
> The problem is once it's read in the html,
> Lynx doesn't know anything about the original file.
> when the user types 'r', it doesn't know the _real_ line number to delete.
> It probably makes assumptions
> based on the number of lines it outputs before the links begin,
> as well as the number of the link, which it does know.
 
my proposal therefore is that Lynx should read the bookmark file HTML
without rendering it, when given the command `r'; it should then
count the number of anchors to determine which piece of HTML to remove.
after all, it HAS to edit the HTML, not the rendered version
in order to remove the bookmark from the persistent bookmark file.
is this difficult?  which piece(s) of Lynx source should i examine?

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