Re: [Lynx-dev] handling long lines in forms

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone had ever noticed this problem.
>
> I use a wiki a lot.  I have noticed that if I go to edit one of
> the wiki pages , and the page contains lines longer than 1024,
> lynx asks me if I want to wrap the lines.  However, even if
> I say "no, I don't" lynx goes ahead and breaks those lines into 1024
> or less character lines.

That's because lynx only stores 1024-character lines in the display.
It's a compiled-in parameter (MAX_LINE), and can be changed.  One
of the drawbacks to changing it is that many display items are allocated
with this size (not with the actual size required).

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