Re: lynx-dev url#name is treated the same as url for -dump

[Bela Lubkin]

The original request was clearly wrong, but there is a reasonable
thought behind it.  It's reasonable to ask for a way to dump a page
starting at a particular fragment; it just should not be an automatic
behavior.

That is, lynx could do the following:

Dump whole document:

  lynx -dump http://foo.bar/baz.html#bletch

Dump starting at the specified fragment:

  lynx -dump -start_at_fragment http://foo.bar/baz.html#bletch

Dump only the specified fragment (i.e. stop immediately before the next
fragment anchor, if any, in the document):

  lynx -dump -one_fragment http://foo.bar/baz.html#bletch

And of course these could be set in a user's .lynxrc so that if they
think the default should be something other than "dump the whole
thing", they have control over that.  This implies one other thing:

  lynx -dump -start_at_fragment http://foo.bar/baz.html
  lynx -dump -one_fragment http://foo.bar/baz.html

-- these commands should dump the whole document even if it does have
fragment anchors; else you can't leave them turned on in your .lynxrc.

I'm not proposing to implement this myself, just trying to defend the
original poster a little help and guide a sensible implementation, if
anyone decides to do it.

The request seems reasonable to me because there currently is no way to
see fragment anchors in dumped output.  They leave no footprints in the
dump, so there's no sensible way to postprocess `lynx -dump` output to
achieve the requested effect.

So, another way to meet the request would be to add a flag that causes
fragment anchors to be visually denoted in the dump.  Then a simple
script could postprocess a dump to do whatever you want.  An advantage
of this approach is that it could also be applied to interactive use:

  Here we are talking about blah blah blah.

  [#config] Configuring the blah blah server ...

  [#shutdown] Stopping the blah blah server ...

I've seen plenty of documents where it would have been instructive to
see the author's fragment anchors inlined in the document.

>Bela<

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