Re: lynx-dev right-left scroll (was -dont-wrap-pre)

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Philip Webb wrote:

> 991029 Henry Nelson wrote: 
> >> I don't like the '+' prefixing convention in SOURCE very much,
> >> something appended to the previous line (esp  \ ) would be more obvious.
> > vi bundled with Solaris wraps at the 80-character edge,
> > but does _not break the line_.  
> > most sticks a "$" at the right edge, but then most does horizontal scroll.
> > if someone is going to spend a lot of time anyway,
> > working on right-left scrolling might make more sense
> > since there wouldn't be a need to break the line.
>  
> Vlad?  now we've got better table support, L-R scrolling should be next.
> much more useful than justification etc ...

  Yes, L-R scrolling can be on our TODO list, but it will require a lot of 
hacking (most problems with anchors IMO). But seems I'll have time to do 
something big only in Feb. Sorry.

  May be there is a cheap hack to achieve L-R scrolling. If 'screen' allows
windows to be wider than actual screen, and allows to L-R scroll them (I
don't use it since I don't have time to study it) , then IMO it's possible to 
add commandline switch like '-table-cols' that will specify how wide tables 
can be. Eg, if you use 80-col terminal, then running lynx with commandline
 'lynx -cols=80 -table-cols=160' will allow rendered tables to take no more
than 2 actual screens wide, while making other content to fit in 80 chars.
 Seems this is a nice idea (if screen satisfies conditions specified).

 Klaus, what do you think?

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad