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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  7 Feb 2010 13:09:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] save a link in abaco
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> 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