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---------------------------------------- Lynx HTML entity bug squashed! February 01st, 2019 ---------------------------------------- The -dump option in Lynx has been fixed in the latest version (Lynx 2.9.0dev1) , reserved characters, such as ampersand (et), less-than, and greater-than, are now converted into HTML entities properly. Here's the relevant changelog entry:
to convert literal "<", "&", and ">" to HTML named entities (report/testcase by Zachary Lee Andrews) -TD Thanks to Thomas Dickey for fixing it :) OpenSUSE Leap 15 currently ships with lynx2.8.9dev.16... Here's what I did to update mine to the current version, but enable the package manager to update to a newer version should OpenSUSE ever publish one: Pull-in (as root) the lynx source: #zypper source-install lynx Take a text editor to /usr/src/packages/SPECS/lynx.spec and change the version number in the "%define tarbase" and "Version:" sections... Comment out the lynx-helpfile.patch file (originally patch 2), I didn't like that patch to begin with :) Now compile the new Lynx with: #rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/lynx.spec Compiling will take a bit... After it is done, install it using one of these two commands (note: I do not know which one applies to non-x86_64 arch, sorry): #zypper install /usr/src/packages/RPMS/$HOSTTYPE/lynx-2.9*.rpm #zypper install /usr/src/packages/RPMS/$CPU/lynx-2.9*.rpm zypper will complain about the file not being signed, just hit i to ignore it... When/if a new version of lynx comes out (probably with Leap 15.1...), you can do a zypper dup, zypper will ask if you want to install the new version of lynx with a vendor change or if you want to keep the one you compiled... Easy! Have a lot of fun! ----------------------------------------
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