Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx text formatting queries

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
>  
> > > 79 column bug?  
> > > --------------  
> > >   
> > > When using 80 column terminals, lynx doesn't render the last column.  I  
> > > have heard that have to do with the terminal will be rendered 
> > > incorrectly,  
> > > but I doubt the validity for such reasoning since Pine and Ncftp have 
> > > been  
> > > using the very last column without any display glitches (well, at least 
> > > no  
> > > problems on xterm), so it seems such terminal glitch is a terminal  
> > > specific problems instead of lynx source problems.   
> > no - it's a limitation of some older versions of curses (weren't aware of 
> > line-wrapping characteristics of terminals). 
>  
> Well, if that's the case, future lynx should add a compilation option for 
> using the last column. 
probably anything that's #define'd with FANCY_CURSES can handle column 80.


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