Re: [Lynx-dev] Goto URL whose name is provided by a program ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At the Goto RUL prompt, I'd like to be able to type something like
> `script args`
> (with the back-quotes)
> so that lynx would run script passing it args and would read the URL to
> go to from the standard output of this execution.

Lynx can read options from stdin, and also if the -stdin option is given,
will read HTML from stdin.  You could construct a page with just the
url in that input, though that would be less friendly (requires the
user to press "return" immediately after starting lynx).

> I've checked the used manual bu couldn't find such a feature.
>
> Any idea about how this could be achieved ?

I'd run lynx from a script that reads the url from stdin and sets the
STARTFILE to that value.

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