Re: lynx-dev patch

[Vlad Harchev]

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> >  Tom! This patch includes my previous patch.
> > 
> >  The previous patch contained the following additions.
> > * Added commandline switch '-dont_wrap_pre' that will inhibit line wrapping 
> > in
> >   <pre> when -dump'ing and -crawl'ing. (But maximal length of line on output
> >   can't exceed MAX_LINE (1023 by default))
> > * lynx.man updated to reflect new option -dont_wrap_pre and to notice that
> >   gnu style of options (with two dashes) is also supported
> 
> Do your patches do anything about wrapping in SOURCE display?
> Giving the option to not do the '+' wrapping (i.e. just don't
> emit LY_SOFT_NEWLINE; revert to behavior before LY_SOFT_NEWLINE
> was introduced) seems something useful.  For one thing, line numbers
> when 'e'diting source would be right again.

 IMO it's better to maintain a 'real line' counter  for this purpose (and show
it on the '=' page).
 
>    Klaus
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad