Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx Users Guide v2.8.9 -- extraneous ruler line

[Thomas Dickey]

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

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