Re: lynx-dev short_url option

[Philip Webb]

990804  address@hidden  wrote:
> Short_url became more useful!  Furthermore...
> This cuts off directories at the middle of it, and replaces to "/.../",
> like this:
>       http://www.foo.com/bar/very_long_string/index.html
>       http://www.foo.com/bar/very/.../index.html
> Since "/" is the true path separator, this is still confusing
> with real "/very/", though real "/.../" is very unlikely.  In
> the case above, it is little better to remove a whole of
> "very_long_string".
> 
> How about another patch?  This is made for the original
> lynx2.8.3dev.5.  I know the problem here, this strips off
> more information from URLs.  Any comment?
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as mainly an observer of this thread,
i'ld say replacing  whatever_is_omitted  by 3 dots  ...  just like that
is least likely to confuse anyone: don't add extra slashes ( / ).

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