From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:35:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitweb: blame: Print just a single new line char per table row
Message-ID: <7vejtnij5n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061005005926.57010.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> This makes cut-and-paste from blame legible, else after
> pasting it is broken into too many lines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>

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
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.

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.