Re: [Lynx-dev] how to maximize client area???

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> 050128 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Daniele Baggio wrote:
> > > i've a big problem using lynx on small terminal with 21 col 16 row.
> > > Lynx renders the html page without use full client area size,
> > > on the left size some blank columns are always present.
>
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>
> isn't it time to remove this rather burocratic left-over (smile) ?
> people using Lynx today want to read simple text with a few headers
> or access tables & such, which have their own formatting.
> it should be at least a config option to eliminate the  3  blank cols.
> is that difficult to implement ?

no, it's not that difficult (my reply pointed that out, giving me as well 
enough context to do that).  Probably something like an --ident option
to scale those 3's and 6's into 0's or 1's and 2's would make most people
happy with it.

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