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LYNX-DEV Re: external editor for TEXTAREA (Was: Using Lynx woth web "for
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Jan Hlavacek |
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LYNX-DEV Re: external editor for TEXTAREA (Was: Using Lynx woth web "forums") |
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Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:38:49 -0500 |
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 08:48:45AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > If Lynx could spawn a seperate editor for TEXTAREA, similar to the way one
> > is spawned for mailto: URLs, I think the result would be fairly intuitive.
> > It also will save a lot of space onscreen in these web forums :)
>
> I think this is much more realistic than a special internal Lynx mode, but
> there is one caveat. I suspect a significant proportion of the demand for
> this is from people with captive accounts or from dedicated Lynx terminals;
> shelling to an editor is likely to compromise the security of such systems,
> as most Unix editors aren't designed to lock people in. That means you
> can't realistically have it as the only option.
Doesn't lynx have some primitive builtin editor which handles mailto and
newsgroups postings?
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