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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] How programmatically determine nature of one's current location in the lynx screen? |
| Date: | Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:21:09 -0400 (EDT) |
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Graham Lawrence wrote:
I'm writing a bash script to automate my sign-ins at various web sites. Is it possible for the script to access the content of the blue highlighted line near the bottom of the lynx screen, so that it can determine if it is currently at a (NORMAL LINK) or at a (Text Entry Field), etc?
Not easily, I think. The usual response to questions about screen-scraping would be to use "expect", but I believe that's
too hard (because of all of the screen optimization made by curses). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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