RE: [Lynx-dev] using lynx in expect scripts?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Virden, Larry W. wrote:

> Jeff Sadowski dixit:
>
> > Problem is this when I change my screen size to anything but 80x24
> > columns my script explodes on me an I have no idea why.
>
> You know, I use lynx 2.8.7dev.4 right now. And I've found that, while I
> can change the number of lines of my xterm and lynx works fine, if I try
> to resize my xterm to be much wider (and performing an unset COLUMNS so
> there isn't a variable saying the size is otherwise), I sometimes see
> lynx's handling of certain aspects of the page to be unexpected.
> Sometimes, I see a doubling of text that was highlighed in inverse, for
> example.

The page (text) and links (highlighted) are drawn separately.

When I modified it to work properly (?) with ncursesw,
I could have broken some detail in that area (since I did make
several fixes to repair things like that).  A copy of the
page, and the size, configuration information would help to
diagnose it.

> The behavior isn't consistent, so I can't point you to an example. If I
> get a chance to do a screen dump of the kind of thing to which I am
> seeing, I'll post a pointer to it.
>
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