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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx window disappears during an external command
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx window disappears during an external command |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:01:54 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Atsuhito KOHDA wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got the following request in Debian Bug Tracking System.
>
> In .mailcap I have
> audio/x-wav; aplay '%s'
> It's annoying that the whole lynx window must disappear
> during when I'm playing a .wav.
>
> I guess the same thing happens with an other external commands.
>
> I'm not sure if this is really a bug but I'd like to hear
> an opinion from the developers.
I don't think it's a bug. The user could (in principle) write a mailcap
entry that works around it (by putting the external program into the
background and redirecting its output to /dev/null for instance). lynx
cannot guess whether it should do that itself - it can only handle the
cases where the external application's output has to be flushed, etc.,
before resuming its own output (such as the samples/lynxviewer script
that I wrote a few years ago).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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