Re: lynx-dev Associating a key to an external program.

[Michel SUCH]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:39:23 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:42:31PM +0100, Michel SUCH wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:30:11 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> 
>> >> 
>> >> I would like to associate a key or key combination to an external program,
>> >> like '.' does for external downloading.
>...
>> But, what I would like to do is starting a program not depending on its
>> url type but on its mime type.
>> I don't like the fact that, for example to start a mp3 player, I first
>> need to download the file and then play it.
>> I would prefer to be able to pass the url to the player and let it do with
>> it.
>
>lynx.cfg (external viewer):
>
Yes, but it first copies the file to the local machine and then passes it
to the viewer.
># MIME types and viewers!
>#
># file extensions may be assigned to MIME types using
># the SUFFIX: definition.
>
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