Re: Lynx Users Guide v2.8.9 -- extraneous ruler line
Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
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| Message-ID | <20191205011612.ij3c4ljthngwnkpt@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net> |
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 02:43:45PM -0600, Edward McGuire wrote: > Section "Starting Lynx with a Remote File" > > Near the bottom of the section, the source reads: > > <p>Lynx also will attempt to create a complete URL if you include adequate > portions of it in the startfile argument. For example:</p> > <pre> > 1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789 > <em>wfbr</em> will be expanded to: > <em>http://www.wfbr.edu/</em> and: > <em>ftp.more.net/pub</em> will be expanded to: > <em>ftp://ftp.more.net/pub</em> > </pre> > > I assume the ruler line was to check text alignment, and was not intended > to see the light of day. maybe/maybe not -- I don't recall exactly. Apparently I added the ruler to ensure that I'd translated the source properly. Source history tells me it was added in 2.8.3dev.10 (in 1999), @@ -217,13 +217,13 @@ Lynx also will attempt to create a complete URL if you include adequate portions of it in the startfile argument. For example:<br> -<tab indent="34"><em>wfbr</em> -<tab indent="62">will be expanded to:<br> -<tab indent="12"><em>http://www.wfbr.edu/</em> -<tab indent="62">and:<br> -<tab indent="26"><em>ftp.more.net/pub</em> -<tab indent="62">will be expanded to:<br> -<tab indent="14"><em>ftp://ftp.more.net/pub</em><br> +<pre> +1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789 + <em>wfbr</em> will be expanded to: + <em>http://www.wfbr.edu/</em> and: + <em>ftp.more.net/pub</em> will be expanded to: + <em>ftp://ftp.more.net/pub</em> +</pre> See <a href="lynx_url_support.html">URL Schemes Supported by Lynx</a> for more detailed information. [<A HREF="#ToC-Remote">ToC</A>] probably for this item: * change <tab> formatting in user's guide, etc., to <pre> sections, thereby appeasing Dave Raggett's "tidy" program -TD -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
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