Re: [Lynx-dev] merge -dump and -source output?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Greg Knittl wrote:

> I think of this as similar to debug output from a compiler. In fact if
> the Lynx -dump can output pointers to line numbers in the input file or
> the source file then I could do my own merge. Perhaps there is already a
> Lynx debug  parameter which will produce something like this. If not, I
> understand that if I really want this I might have to write the function
> myself.  Would you be willing to accept it as a valid feature request?
> I.e. if I wrote it, would you integrate it into Lynx?  Do you think
> there are better ways to skin this cat?

I'd probably integrate it (sounds as if the line-numbers approach is 
doable).  Going much deeper than that would run into the problem that
lynx is parsing the input and putting the information into structures.
Offhand, that's how -source is implemented (printing the contents of
the structures).

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