Re: [Lynx-dev] "-underscore" not working

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, siznax wrote:

> On 10/31/10 12:26 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, siznax wrote:
> > > do i not understand this option really, or am i using this switch
> > > incorrectly? i've tried SUBSTITUTE_UNDERSCORES:TRUE in my global
> > > lynx.cfg, but still get the same result with:
> >
> > hmm - no. A quick read of the code's showing me that the problem may be
> > that underline mode for dumps isn't provided in the (default) color-style
> > configuration.
>
> thanks for resonding.
>
> so, is this a bug? or can i change my config somehow as a

color-style is a compile-time feature (you'd have to recompile lynx to
change it).  If you need advice on this, this is the place to ask...

> workaround? sorry, i'm not familiar with the color-style
> configuration options. i'm really only interested in the
> -dump features.
>
> btw, is there a way to force double-spacing of line breaks,
> or turn off wrapping altogether? i've been resorting to dumb
> stuff like this:

no... lynx is storing chunks of lines in buckets no bigger than 1024.

(it's "possible" to recompile with a bigger bucket-size, but not 
well-tested)

>  lynx -dump -width=102400 BAD_HTML | sed G
>
> where BAD_HTML = http://tinyurl.com/2w8lvy6 doesn't use
> the P tag. so, the 100KB width gives me (hopefully) full
> paragraphs, and "sed G" preserves the space between the
> breaks. unfortunatey, there is much BAD_HTML. ;-)
>
> /siznax

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