Re: lynx-dev RE: "remove the r command"

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> maybe best of all, we could turn the bookmark file into a regular HTML doc,
> like the Options & Print screens, when some of the long-standing problems
> would disappear.  i've never seen it explained adequately
> why the bookmark file has to be so sensitive to changes:
> it seems to be yet another primitive feature left over
> from Lynx early-development days.

Primitive or not, it is the only case where lynx tries to change
an existing html file.

The function that does the removing gets passed just a filename and the
number of the link to remove.  It works surprisingly well nearly all
the time.  If you have a proposal for a better implementation, especially
one that doesn't create a bunch of new problems, let's hear it.

   Klaus