lynx-dev Re: patch to spawn extra lynx's

[Yury Burkatovsky]

I looked at recent Lynx mail and tried to guess if you have found a way of
running w3m by the EXTERNAL (".") command in lynx.

Just in case you haven't, try my settings in lynx.cfg:

a) if you have multi-window X environment, open w3m in a side window and
   continue browsing with lynx:

         EXTERNAL:http:xterm -e sh -c "/usr/local/bin/w3m %s" &:TRUE

b) in case you have to open w3m on the same screen and suspend lynx until 
   you exit, 

         EXTERNAL:http:sh -c "/usr/local/bin/w3m %s":TRUE
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> I'm trying to use the EXTERNAL system to launch w3m on the current link
> (I was hoping I could get it to look at the locally cached file, but that's
> irrelevant at the moment).
> 
> hitting dot just refreshes the link (and I have turned the pausing back on
> to make sure I'm not missing an error message).
> 
> Checking the Configuration Definitions from the = screen, it says
> USE_EXTERNALS                       1
> 
> Which I am hoping is the same as --enable-externs as mentioned above.
> 
> my lynx.cfg contains:
> EXTERNAL:http:/usr/local/bin/w3m %s:TRUE
> FORMS_OPTIONS:FALSE
> 
> (I originally had it as 
> EXTERNAL:http:w3m %s &:TRUE
> 
> but tried putting the whole path and taking off the & to see if it would help.
> As you can tell, it didn't..)
> 
> Any info on how to get the EXTERN functionality would be greatly appreciated!
>