Re: LYNX-DEV lynx and screen

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> If you browse the change notes you will see that at least one other member
> of this mailing list also uses screen - I have made a few modest contributions
> to the doc set of screen in the past (yes, it's time I kicked in some more,
> however, life is short and there are so many sandboxes in which to play...).
> 
> I continue to use screen extensively since my only access from home is
> via a vt220 that calls into a Unix box.  Screen is my life saver, with it's
> cut and paste ability between windows, etc.
> 
> Future screen releases may include overlapping windows; currently it
> only supports full independant windows.

I frequently use screen (I am right now) and have Lynx setup to open in a
window all its own. I would like to enhanced support for screen (and other
similar systems, such as splitvt) that allow virtual terminal multiplexing
and persistent sessions. Perhaps a general way to achieve this would be an
`alternate viewer' hotkey (similar to the Printer list) that allowed the
opening of either the current link or the current document with another
program. This would be great for those of us (for example) that like to
play with gopher, but don't like the way Lynx implements it (it's not
Gopher-plus compliant.) Perhaps a more general solution would be to allow
a third `%s' in a printer or downloader definition which gets replaced by
the URL of the resource in question.


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