Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitweb: blame: Print just a single new line char per table row

From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Oct 5, 2006, 06:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20061005064817.21552.qmail@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejtnij5n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> I have to say the browser is seriously broken if whitespaces
> between <tr> and <td>, </td> and next <td>, </td> and </tr>
> makes a difference to its behaviour.  Aren't there a way to tell
> the browser to cut "visually"?  E.g. "The area I want to cut is

I'm not sure, I'm using latest Firefox.

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> from this data column, and lines from here to there.  I do not
> want the leftmost two columns (commit-8 and lineno)".
> 
> I do not mind applying this, but that is only because it does
> not make its source any less readable.  It does make things
> harder to debug if somebody is debugging its output by reading
> the generated raw HTML, so it is not like there is no downside.

If you think that this could be a problem or affects negatively, please don't apply. cut-paste-edit is a small price to pay as opposed to messing up the code and output.

> You might want to run links (or lynx) in screen ;-).  Screen
> supports left- (or right-, or both-sides) bounded cut which I
> find extremely useful.

Ok, I'll try that.

    Luben