Re: lynx-dev Re: suggestions for new features

[Jan Hlavacek]

On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 03:34:06AM -0400, Egon Ipse wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 02:50:52AM -0400, John wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Jan Hlavacek wrote: ... in part ...
> > 
> > > Incidentaly, I would like to report a minor bug in the
> > > externals support.  When you press `.' on a page with no
> > > links on it, lynx dumps core.  I wanted to look at the
> > > source before reporting it, but I will be extremely busy
> > > for next couple of weeks, so if somebody wants to try it
> > > first, go ahead. 
> > 
> > It's not a bug ... it's a feature.  If you are unix literate

Well, this seems to fix the feature:

--- LYMainLoop.c        Wed Mar 25 08:58:54 1998
+++ lynx2-8/src/LYMainLoop.c    Thu Apr 23 04:56:10 1998
@@ -4594,8 +4594,11 @@
 
 #ifdef USE_EXTERNALS
        case LYK_EXTERN:  /* use external program on url */
-           run_external(links[curdoc.link].lname);
-           refresh_screen = TRUE;
+           if  ((nlinks > 0) && (links[curdoc.link].lname != NULL))
+           {
+              run_external(links[curdoc.link].lname);
+              refresh_screen = TRUE;
+           }
            break;
 #endif /* USE_EXTERNALS */
 

It wasn't that painfull after all.
-- 
Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
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