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Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.

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On 3/1/25 1:30 PM, IanJ wrote:
> Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be worth submitting a patch to alter the client's display so that
>> it only takes 11 characters on the left hand side and makes the correct
>> calculation.
>>
>> As to whether you should reduce your menu titles to 67 characters is an
>> interesting question and really points to how Gopher use has changed.
>> When I used it in the 90s it was mainly used to download files and
>> although I don't remember seeing this truncation I don't think it would
>> really have been that much of an issue as I don't expect many lines were
>> formatted in that way.  The formatting makes sense on your site and looks
>> nice - it is curious how the 'i' itemtype isn't truncated in the same way
>> by the client.
>>
>> Perhaps submit a patch and see if it gets merged in.  Then wait until the
>> major distributions have updated their packages and revert to 69
>> characters.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>> Lorry
>>
> 
> I'm not much of a C programmer and have very little experience using
> ncurses, but I wrote a patch today. It works for me, but YMMV:
> gopher://gopher.icu/0/files/0001-Removed-selected-item-indicator-from-left-margin-rep.patch
> 
> It can be applied to the latest source tree from here:
> https://github.com/jgoerzen/gopher.git
> 
> I also wrote a brief phlog post about it for anyone who wants more info:
> gopher://gopher.icu/0/phlog/Computing/UMN-gopher-revisited.md
> 
> Here is a screenshot of it with the changes:
> gopher://gopher.icu/I/files/gopher-menu2.png
> 
> If people feel that this is an improvement, then I may submit the patch.
> Any fixes or feedback gratefully received.
> 

Hey, very nice!

If you're still up for more UMN Gopher client hacking you might
try getting it to scroll multi-page menus that DON'T have actual
links, i.e. phlogs that are menus consisting of mostly Type "i".
It seems to be the only client I've tested that fails to scroll
these types of menus.

Cheers,
A.I.

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  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-26 21:29 +0000
  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:03 +0000
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