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Re: lynx-dev change to status line
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev change to status line |
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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
- Re: lynx-dev patch - "JUSTIFY", (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev patch - "JUSTIFY", David Combs, 1999/07/14
- Re: lynx-dev patch - "JUSTIFY", mattack, 1999/07/14
- Re: lynx-dev patch - "JUSTIFY", David Combs, 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev patch - "JUSTIFY", Peter Wright, 1999/07/15
- lynx-dev code indentation style (was "JUSTIFY") - warning, "religious" topic..., Klaus Weide, 1999/07/14
- lynx-dev change to status line, Eduardo Chappa L., 1999/07/14
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line, Eduardo Chappa L., 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line, Klaus Weide, 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line, Eduardo Chappa L., 1999/07/15
- lynx-dev javascript jump (was: change to status line), Heather Stern, 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev javascript jump (was: change to status line), David Woolley, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev javascript jump (was: change to status line), Heather Stern, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line, Eduardo Chappa L., 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev change to status line, David Combs, 1999/07/15
- Re: lynx-dev patch, David Woolley, 1999/07/18
Re: lynx-dev patch, David Woolley, 1999/07/13