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Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug
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Philip Webb |
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Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug |
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Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:05:41 -0400 (EDT) |
970415 Hiram Lester wrote:
> Since this seems to be such a troublesome issue (I've been bitten as
> well), why can't we add a comment to the beginning of the file similar to
> what Netscape does that says not to edit the file or at least not to
> change the format of the file or removing bookmarks may not work properly.
> Netscape has some comment about "This is a Netscape's bookmark file. It
> is generated automatically. Do not edit this file by hand."
that's more than we need:
970416 Al Gilman wrote:
> The present state of affairs is unsafe enough that some such warning
> is a good idea. I am not totally sure about the flat "do not edit..."
> because
> - the <OL> formatting with links-are-numbered is bad
> - re-ordering one's bookmarks is a useful thing that requires hand editing.
>
> So I would prefer if we can come up with the right short list of things
> that can be safely done by hand, that we write that up and say "do
> not edit by hand without first consulting {some document reference}.
yup, that IS what's needed:
you can delete a whole line & you can edit within a line,
but anything else -- eg adding comments, moving parts of lines --
may cause problems; & an explicit warning to check that r has removed
the intended line should also be included.
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- LYNX-DEV I don't know how to delete a line from bookmark document, zca, 1997/04/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV I don't know how to delete a line from bookmark document, Philip Webb, 1997/04/14
- LYNX-DEV Re: I don't know how to delete a line from bookmark document, Louis-David Mitterrand, 1997/04/14
- LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Philip Webb, 1997/04/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Howard Kaikow, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Philip Webb, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Jason Baker, 1997/04/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1997/04/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Al Gilman, 1997/04/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug,
Philip Webb <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Al Gilman, 1997/04/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Philip Webb, 1997/04/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Al Gilman, 1997/04/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1997/04/17
- Re: LYNX-DEV deleting bookmarks: bug, Philip Webb, 1997/04/17