=?UTF-8?Q?Bug_reports:_Multiple_spaces_in_links; _=E2=8C=98S_unreliable_(?= was: Re: [ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client)

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On Sat, Oct 10, 2020, at 5:56 AM, skyjake wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Here's a brief update on what's been happening with Lagrange since the 
> initial v0.1 release.
> 
> I've just released v0.4 today with preliminary audio playback support. 
> You can now listen to Ogg Vorbis and WAV files using an inline audio 
> player. It works the same way as the image viewer.

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

I noticed a couple odd things, though:

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. In the source, the link lines look like:

=> / ..
=> 0xgem/ 0xgem/                                                 Jul  7 2020
=> acdw/ acdw/                                                  Jul 25 2020
=> adiabatic/ adiabatic/                                             Oct  6 2020
=> alchemist/ alchemist/                                             Jun 21 2020
=> b/ b/                                                     Oct  6 2020
=> bentsai/ bentsai/                                               Jul  7 2020
=> chance/ chance/                                                Sep  6 2020

In amfora, a command-line TUI client, the dates are right-aligned if you've got a wide-enough terminal, but in Lagrange, multiple spaces are collapsed into one and each line is kind of hard to read because of the raggedyness of it all.

For the second, I noticed that the ASCII art at "midnight.pub" didn't look right compared to amfora. I wanted to check the source text at <gemini://tilde.team/~m15o/> to see what was going on, but when I hit ⌘S, I got:

```
ERROR SAVING PAGE
Read-only file system
[Continue]
```

I wasn't expecting this error message at all, considering it's (1) only my ~/Downloads and (2) <gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/> downloads just fine to it from Lagrange and (3) amfora saves "~m15o.gmi" just fine there when I hit C-s in it.

…and hm. The ASCII art there isn't backticked. I should go pester the author to wrap it all in

```Midnight
…
```
.

— Nathan