Bug reports: Multiple spaces in links; Cmd+S unreliable (was: Re: [ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client)

On 11. Oct 2020, at 5:04, mailinglists at ngalt.com wrote:

> First and by far the most important, I'd like to echo John Cowan's 
effusive praise. Lagrange is nothing short of insanely great.

Thanks, glad to hear you like it. :)

> First, in the category of "I don't know if it's wrong, but it _is_ 
different and I'm not sure I like it": I went to 
<gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/> and multiple spaces in link 
text are being collapsed into one space.

Hmm, interesting. The Gemini spec doesn't seem to weigh in on whitespace 
normalization in link text (only in regular text lines), although it does 
say "clients can present links to users in whatever fashion the client author wishes".

The way the right-aligning is done here assumes a fixed-width font. While 
it isn't appropriate to show all links using a fixed-width font, perhaps 
this use case of whitespace padding could be detected by the client and it 
could switch to fixed-width for those links only? Seems a little fiddly, 
though, since it also assumes a specific line width.

Maybe a better way would be to take the whitespace padding as a signal to 
align the remaining text separately, although that could get complicated.

> when I hit ?S, I got:
> 
> ```
> ERROR SAVING PAGE
> Read-only file system
> [Continue]
> ```

This is a bug in Lagrange's save path. It gets confused by the tilde in 
"~m15o" and ignores the Downloads directory set in Preferences. Will fix.

Thanks for reporting!

--jaakko

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