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Re: lynx-dev Re: editing forms (was forms)


From: mattack
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: editing forms (was forms)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:09:34 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Christopher Burian wrote:
>Hi, you write:
>
>> there was a big discussion of this a few months ago
>> & the reason nothing got done was the usual security problems
>> around anonymous users, who might somehow use an editor to attack people;
>> there was apparently a different problem
>> about having one device for them & another for the rest of us.
>
>I use pico as my default editor which seems to work fine as a full screen 
>editor.  Why it would be difficult to upgrade Lynx text box editing from 
>line-oriented to screen-oriented like pico?  I wouldn't want to use an 
>external editor, personally.

Aaah, no, not pico!

Maybe pico as a default, but use an external editor if specified!
(I use pine, but it always, for example right now, spawns off vim to actually
edit the file.)

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