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Re: lynx-dev screen widths
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev screen widths |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:02:23 -0500 (CDT) |
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> the fact that Lynx uses only columns 4 - 73 of the standard 79-col screen
> is hard-coded somewhere in Lynx; it has nothing to do with stty:
> (1) there's nothing in man stty about setting display width,
> (2) my (present) editor & the man display both use 79 columns,
> without any change in tty settings. a lot of users would find it helpful
> if they could use all 79 columns when using Lynx: i am one of them.
See DefaultStyle.c.
> moreover, the fact that Lynx restricts users to 70 columns flies
> in the face of the ideological claim that it should be format-neutral:
> it was chosen -- apparently arbitrarily -- back in the early days of Lynx.
"Back in the early days of Lynx" (or of the WWW Library), these things
were put in a separate source file; so the rest of the code is
(mostly) format-neutral in your sense. The idea of style sheets
isn't a new one. If someone implements (changeable) style sheets for
lynx, that's where changing the margins would belong.
Klaus
- lynx-dev screen widths, Philip Webb, 1999/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, John Bley, 1999/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, Jonathan Lawson, 1999/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, David Combs, 1999/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev screen widths, Sergey Svishchev, 1999/04/17