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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] save a link in abaco
Date: Sun,  7 Feb 2010 13:09:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b701bb36b8026e90b5b4d6a599447e8@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d01002071000j53fb8a24ob7330f8ba3a4f913@mail.gmail.com>

> it seems to me that it is nearly impossible to snarf a longer text
> from abaco. As if the pertaining buffer was really small.
> Is it only I noticing this behaviour? Also I am having problems with
> marking the text in abaco from time to time...

exactly.  the html entities are generally very small.
if you find a big <pre> formatted section, you'll
notice you can snarf the whole thing.  the problem
is spanning entities.

the structure of libhtml makes the problem complicated
to solve.

searching can't work for similar reasons.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-07 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-04 17:45 Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-07 18:00 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-07 18:09   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-02-07 18:24     ` Rudolf Sykora

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