Re: [Lynx-dev] What blanks the blank spaces at the beginning of a line?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 2018-10-27, at 19:06:29, russellbell wrote:
> 
>       Quoth Paul Gilmartin, 'Context?  Example?  Is this in HTML?
> Is it between <PRE> ... <PRE> tags?'
>       The beginning of a line before the display of characters, the
> indentation of paragraphs (or whatever) , the left side of centered
> lines, pretty much any reason to leave the beginning characters of a
> line blank.  In HTML.  Beginning with kernel 4.19 (but the same lynx!)
> when the screen changes blank space at the beginning of a line
> inherits what was previously on the screen.
>       It doesn't happen in X.  Oddly it *does* happen in blank
> characters in the middle of a line *when* that space on the screen was
> previously occupied by a colored character (such as I use lynx.lss to
> make bold, italics, links...)
>  
Clearly, there are bugs there, particularly the hangover.
But, otherwise:

This is the first line of text.
          This is the second.

can be, and properly is, rendered as

This is the first line of text.  This
is the second.

(depending on display width).  And even:

This is the first line of text.

<BR>
<BR>

          This is the second.

as:

This is the first line of text.
This is the second.

<PRE> ... </PRE> markup changes those rules.

-- gil