Re: lynx-dev table formatting (possible) solution

[dickey]

> 
> address@hidden writes: 
>  
>  > > Has anyone looked at "borrowing" from the w3 mode in GNU emacs the 
>  > > table formatting code for lynx?  I've been aware of Fote's message 
>  > > (http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/lynx-dev/9609/0310.html) on the 
>  > > subject of TABLEs for a while now, and thus haven't really looked 
>  > > at the implementation difficulties, but it seems that it might be 
>  > > possible to convert the elisp code from w3 
>  > > (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/download.html) for use in lynx. 
>  >  
>  > elisp needs an interpreter (and runtime), right? 
>  
> correct.  probably the original poster meant borrowing algorithms rather 
> than code.  (although having lynx integrated into emacs would be nice.) 

some people run lynx within emacs (I don't know details).

a lisp interpreter might be a little expensive in terms of maintainance
(and runtime, a lot more).


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Thomas E. Dickey
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