Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx text formatting queries

[David Combs]

NO NO NO!  Not a COMPILATION option!  RUNTIME, please.

> From address@hidden Wed Apr  1 19:40:45 1998
> Date:         Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:15:59 -0500
> From: Jacob Poon <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.
> 
>