Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.18

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 7 Jan 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> I don't intend to hardware-in pine (or any other program).  But perhaps
> extending the "%s" for externals into a short list of useful things based
> on the current link would be doable. 

Passing more things across the EXTERNAL interface may be useful (or not),
but seems completely irrelevant to what Eduardo wants.  He wants to use
ACTIVATE instead of EXTERN.

Anyway, if you want to pass more things to EXTERNAL scripts - passing them
in environment variables is the way to go, IMO, rather than adding stuff
to the command line.  No need then to revise what "%s" means.

> (Also, you did mention there is
> a broken ifdef in the mailto code - I don't recall if it's been fixed).

If you didn't fix it it must still be broken...  with the result that "mailto"
form actions don't work at all (in UNIX at least).

> >   Klaus 
> here's another:
>   
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <address@hidden> 
> Message-Id: <address@hidden> 
> Subject: lynx-dev [PATCH 2.8.3.15] mail on OS/2 
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 02:47:03 -0500 (EST) 

> This patch enables mailto: on OS/2. 

That's the one where he lets lynx fix up commands every time because
apparently it's not acceptable to configure lynx right.  I'd like
to say no thanks.  Anyway it isn't closely related to mailto handling,
except that that's where the "problem" happened to occur.