Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] explicitly mark hidden links with user-defined string - addition

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Philip Webb wrote:

> 000620 Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > Just looked at the patch again -
> > the last hunk (that modifies userdefs.h) will fail -- snip --
> 
> this looks like a good addition to Lynx:
> i hope you will submit a revised patch which works properly.

  Why do you think that the original version of the patch worked improperly?
  It doesn't apply very cleanly (very small manual intervention of adding
 one line to userdefs.h is required), but seems there won't be any problems
 with it.

> you might want to add to the notation in  lynx.cfg
> that giving a non-empty string is equivalent to  -hiddenlinks=merge ,
> except that the user will also be able to navigate to them with arrow keys.

  Seems that documentation for this setting in lynx.cfg is even more clear in
this respect (I repost it again):

# HIDDEN_LINK_MARKER - HTML parsing
# This option defines the string that will be used as title of hidden link (
# the link that otherwise won't have any any label associated with it).
# Using the empty string as the value will cause lynx to behave in old way -
# hidden links will be handled according to other settings (mostly the
# parameter of --hiddenlinks commandline switch). If the value is non-empty
# string, hidden link becomes non-hidden so it won't be handled as hidden link
# (e.g. listed among hidden links on 'l'isting page).
#
#HIDDEN_LINK_MARKER:

> someone also needs to add a mention of hidden links in Users Guide:
> if you get your patch working, maybe i'll have a go at that.

 So you can start working right now :)
 
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  -Vlad


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