Re: lynx-dev Mailing from Lynx with Pine

[Morten Bo Johansen]

Hart Larry <address@hidden> wrote:

HL> Hi, All,
HL> Is there a way to invoke Pine from lynx when a mailto URL exists?
HL> If there's a way to do this in the lynx config, I'd like to set it up so
HL> that Pine does the mailing.
HL> That way, rather than use pico as an editor directly, I could write the
HL> message in Pine and do a control-x to send the message, respond y for yes,
HL> and then be back to lynx.
HL> If this is possible, how do I set this up in the lynx config file?
HL> Hart

Yes, you can insert this in your lynx.cfg:

    EXTERNAL:mailto:pine %s:TRUE

And then press "." (i.e. dot) on a mailto: link, That should
spawn Pine. However, you won't get the choice of including the
current page in your comment like you do with Lynx.


Regards,

Morten

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