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Re: lynx-dev change to status line


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: lynx-dev change to status line
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:57:46 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Eduardo Chappa L. wrote:

> When in advance mode, lynx cuts the address of the current link if this is
> too long to be displayed, not showing the name of the document to be
> accessed. This is important sometimes because one would not like to follow
> certain links (say tar.gz or jpg in slow connections) or persons with
> disabilities would not get valuable information from the status line.

ELGOTO ('E') allows examination of the full URL without going to a
separate screen.

HEAD (']') can often be used to see whether what's at the end of the
link is "too big".

> The following patch changes this behavior to display the most possible
> "useful information" For example:
> 
> http://here-there-is-a-very-very-very-very-very-long-url.com/and/it/links/to
> /document.html
> 
> is displayed as:
> 
> http://here-there-is-a-very-very-very-very-very-long-url.c/.../document.html
> 
> the information is hard to find using the list of links 

But we have INFO ('=').

> and  not necessary
> to do so, since it can be given in a better format. The following patch
> acomplishes that. Of course more elegant solutions can be done.

>        */
> +         char *more = "-more-";
> +         char *index = "-index-";
> + 

Btw [separate issue?] these should probably be wrapped in gettext().


   Klaus


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