Re: [Lynx-dev] How programmatically determine nature of one's current location in the lynx screen?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Graham Lawrence wrote:

> Thank you for the quick response and reference to "expect".  Actually
> I'm so used to manipulating apps with xdotool etc it never occurs to
> me that an app may offer the facility to script itself, as lynx does.
> In the interim I discovered -cmd_log and -cmd_script, and its a whole
> lot easier to do what I want that way.

ok - I had thought from the reference to the message line that lynx's
command/logging options would not solve the problem.

> And thank you all very much for lynx.  I used it a little on windows
> but that version doesn't support https.  But since converting to linux
> a few months back and discovering that this lynx does support https it
> has become my browser of choice; so much faster and no distractions,
> wonderful.

no problem (report bugs)

> On 7/31/11, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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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