LYNX-DEV piped commands (was Lynx wish)

[Philip Webb]

980414 Tom Hall wrote: 
> I wish lynx had a "pipe keystroke input from command" option.
> I often am editing a TEXTINPUT area, and wish I could do something like:
>  CTRL-V  !cat file.txt |   or    CTRL-V  !date |
> and have file.txt or the date be entered as if I had typed it.
> I suppose there's some kind of security problem with this,
> but I do the same thing all the time with the mouse on X windows
 
how to handle textareas was discussed very recently on lynx-dev:
look in the Archive at  www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ ;
the wish is by no means confined to you,
but improvements generally happen because a wisher writes the code.

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