Re: lynx-dev LYNX: need to change lynx-LOCAL "screen width"

[Mike Castle]

Amazingly enough David Combs said:
> However, when I want to p(rint) to a file some interesting
> thing and email it to a friend, THEIR machine is usually
> a pc, used to 80-wide stuff.

A simpler solution might be:

hit 'V' to go to visited links and find the link for the page you're on (It
would be nice if 'L'inks page made the current page a URL as well).

Now, when on that link hit '.'.

This '.' will spawn a script you have conveniently configured in lynx.cfg
to point to "lynx_helper.sh" which you have written.

This script of you have written will throw up a menu of choices to do with
the URL it was just passed.  You will choose the option titled "format and
mail to friend".

That menu item will prompt you for a subject and list of addresses to mail
to (actually, if you're good, your script would generate the subject from
the content of the URL, but we'll assume you went simple first time
around).

Then, your script will run the commands:

lynx -dump -width=80 -nolist $1 | mail ${addresslist}

Where $1 was, of course, the URL lynx passed to lynx_helper.sh when you
pressed '.' and ${addresslist} was filled when you did "read addresslist"
in your Bourne shell script.

In short, with that handy script you've written, you hit the keys 'V',
downarrow some number of times, '.', menu option from script (your script
will do other things as well, of course), subject, addresses.

mrc

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