Re: lynx-dev info pages

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, brian j. pardy wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> 
> > Actually I think this is a swell idea .. and it might just be as simple as
> > getting the right info->html interface/software to get things going 
> > 
> >     Regards
> > 
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jason Price wrote:
> > 
> > > First off: sorry if this is the wrong forum.  I scaned the webpages for
> > > something like feature-requests, but I couldn't find it.
> > > 
> > > I was ranting at Stallman today, wilst trying to read the info
> > > documentation for mysql.  And I was wishing that he had made it as easy 
> > > and
> > > intuitive as lynx was. 
> > > 
> > > Next logical thought is why can't lynx do it?  The formats (in my limited
> > > information) have some corelation...
> > > 
> > > Is such a beast possible?
> 
> Perhaps using the CERN rules that Klaus just added support for?  I'm not
> familiar with how they work, but can perhaps a filter be specified for
> certain document types?

No, you can just use them to either reject a URL or make lynx
goto-another-URL-instead-of-this-one.

The whole HTStream mechanism in lynx is already a way to "plug in
filters", but they have to be written in C and be compiled in.

But I don't really understand what this thread is about.  Someone
wants to convert something into anotherthing, but why should that be a
task for Lynx?

    Klaus