Re: lynx word bleeding?

Hi,
Well...at least I am not imagining the problem.
Your description reminded me of the time when the bottom of a page kept 
content from a few pages back smiles.
I am going to try your control-l solution first.
Its not critical, just requiring me to listen more carefully, so a bit 
annoying.
Now, if  the  stuff shows up in a file, that will be an entirely different 
situation of course.
Thanks for the tip,
Oh,  anyone here use basic html for gmail with lynx?
If so, I may have a different question, again harder to explain as it is 
only happening there, and only   really recently.
Thanks again,
Karen



On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hi Karen,
>
>> if the content is still there.
>
> I think I understand the problem, and I have hit it as well
> on a visual display.
>
> Basically, yes, when you scroll, sometimes previous content
> is not erased if the new line is shorter than the old line.
>
> This probably has to do with both the way lynx is compiled
> (which termcap/curses/slang/etc. library it uses), the actual
> terminal (emulator) in use (and how the $TERM variable is set),
> and possibly the page content (I have seen this more often if
> “funny” Unicode characters were used). Mismatching character
> sets between the document and the locale and/or lynx config
> are also a possible cause.
>
> I’m sorry I cannot offer a general advice / fix, other than
> noting that, when I notice the issue, I press ^L (Control-L)
> to redraw the screen, and it goes away.
>
> If you hit this again on a page whose content is not private,
> maybe save that page (press V (uppercase v) then d (lowercase
> d) to download it, confirm a filename) and then hand that file
> to your support. Maybe they can reproduce the issue with the
> file in question and the same terminal settings, and then they
> can hopefully either find terminal/locale/lynx settings that
> make the issue stop or recompile lynx with different libraries
> until it’s fixed.
>
> Good luck,
> //mirabilos
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>
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