Re: lynx-dev Forms Word Wrap Problem with Lynx

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote: 
>  
> > My inclination is to summarily wrap the overflow to a new line at that 
> > point, and *perhaps* throw up a message in the statusline that one or more 
> > lines were too long, but were wrapped at an arbitrary point (ie, no text 
> > lost, but format may be altered). 
> >  
> > Given the default (1024) line length, I can't see trying to do more than 
> > that. 
>  
> Sounds fine.  Probably a message isn't needed - it should be pretty 
> obvious that the text is messed up.  I don't thing anyone would 
> really want to enter text lines that long:) - lynx just shouldn't 
> crash if such a file gets inserted by accident. 

well, we can proceed by finishing off making the various constants into
symbols (whatever 512's are left), and then test it with an absurdly-low
value (like 80).  that would flush out a lot of places where the appropriate
tests aren't made.

>    Klaus 


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