Re: [VM] spaces truncated in presentation text

[Kyle Farrell]

Thanks Uday.  Yes, I am using cygwin lynx.  Looks like I'm running
into an old bug with lynx 2.8.7.1 and lynx's "-nomargins" argument
that I'm using:

  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2009-09/msg00010.html

So no vm bug here.

That said, the reason I'm specifying "-nomargins" as an argument to
lynx is without this option the lynx output has a margin of three
spaces prepended to each line.  Perhaps I should look into a different
text/html handler..?

As an aside, the vm-mime-display-internal-lynx-text/html does not
honor vm-lynx-program and hardcodes the string "lynx" as the program.
The method in vm-mime.el should be something like:

(defun vm-mime-display-internal-lynx-text/html (start end layout)
  (shell-command-on-region start (1- end)
                           (concat vm-lynx-program " -force_html -dump 
-pseudo_inlines -stdin")
                           nil t))

-Kyle



On 7/4/2012, Uday Reddy wrote:
> Kyle Farrell writes:
> 
> > This is from Emacs on 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) on Windows 7.
> 
> But Windows doesn't have lynx.  Are you using Cygwin lynx?
> 
> > When I do notice missing space characters in the presentation buffer,
> > it appears to be where the lynx-rendered text has an end of line.  ie-
> > if lynx renders:
> > 
> > some text here
> > and some more here
> 
> If line-endings are clobbered, that is an entirely different problem.  You
> should save the output of lynx in a file, visit it in Emacs using M-x
> find-file-literally and see what text is there.
> 
> > The lynx options I'm using are "-force_html -dont_wrap_pre -dump 
> > -pseudo_inlines -stdin -nolist -nonumbers -nomargins".
> 
> I don't understand how you are specifying options.  The recommended method
> for using lynx is to set `vm-mime-text/html-handler' to 'lynx and let VM
> deal with all the rest.  No lynx options need to be set by you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Uday
>