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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> > You could do something like that as an external-viewer, but that would
> > involve running another copy of lynx as a subprocess (not good for
> > navigation, since you'd have to exit the subprocess to return to the
> > process containing the history up to that point).
>
> And the subprocess would not inherit the cokies, would it ?

right

> > The only thing analogous to reading a script is the provision for running
> > an external editor in textarea's (which would-be-nice-if the same feature
> > worked in any string-prompt).
> >
> > Perhaps what you're looking for is some hybrid of those two areas
> > (requiring new code to support it).
>
> Assuming a patch implementing the back-quote expansion in the goto URL
> prompt, or something similar, would such a pach be accepted ?

probably

> Of course, one may imagine that this behaviour is disabled by default
> and can be enalbled through a configuration option.

right - it should be configurable

> Sébastien.
>
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