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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:45:19PM +0100, Michel SUCH wrote:
> 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.

Then I guess the answer is "probably not".

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