Re: LYNX-DEV Uh oh...: Filip's date-hacking

[David Combs]

RE Filip's planned date-hacks for bookmarks.

Please, whatever you stick into the bookmarks.html files,
make it so that we INDIVIDUALS can if we want be able
to write our OWN scripts, etc, to "parse" it, at least
to be able to FIND the date/time you seem to want to
insert.

Maybe besides an actual date string, eg dec-25, also
something easy to sort, eg number of seconds since some
fixed date, so WE don't each have to do date-parsing
in whatever scripting-lang or programming-lang we use
(and, there are so many of them).

> From address@hidden Thu Feb 19 16:15:51 1998
> From: Filip M Gieszczykiewicz <address@hidden>
> Subject: LYNX-DEV Uh oh...
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> 
> After several months of not touching C... I just spent about 3 hours
> hacking minicom... and re-figured-out gdb (concluding, after 2 hours
> of breakpointing and doing kill -INT blah a LOT :-) that it was NOT
> minicom that was freezing up after an aborted Z-modem download but
> the host! Sending a BREAK is all it took to get out of the dead
> session... whew....)
> 
> Anyways, that means that after my last midterm on Wed, I'll be
> doing a bit of hacking on Lynx... consider that a warning ;-)
> 
> The first thing on MY agenda is a quick HACK to add a date/time-stamp
> to the bookmark saving command... my bookmarks are very outdated
> and it would be NICE to be able to prevent that in the future. I'll
> probably chicken out and instead of hacking lynx to actually verify
> them when they expire, I'll hack some shell script (perl if I get
> brave... another re-learn) to do the job. I've had some ideas for a
> while how to do that...
> 
> Second on agenda is a shell/perl module that will do some
> serious MUCKING of the bookmarks - the LYNX way... They have
> all these progs to do gymnastics on Netscrape and IExploder
> and we (heck, make that "I") need that for my bookmarks. A
> way of sorting them, moving them around... there will have to
> be a lynx hack to not trash any of the hidden (comments) flags
> needed... What's really needed is a way to dispatch individual
> bookmarks among all the sub-bookmark files... moving them by
> hand is a pain. Off the top of my head, I'll have: various sanity
> checks on the entries (null titles, unterminated markup, markup IN
> entries kill, etc. - consider this a "fix damaged bookmarks file"),
> duplicate entry kill, editing of titles, editing of expire/"touch",
> and more as I think of it. Merge.. import & maybe export into Netscape
> format... hmmm..... Got any more suggestions/ideas?
> 
> Sorry, I don't do "portable" or "elegant"... so someone will have to
> clean up after me if they want it that way... as usual :-)
> 
> Take care.
>