Re: lynx-dev X-windows problem (was emacs/Lynx)

[Webmaster Jim]

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> 990218 Thomas Dickey wrote: 
> >> From: <address@hidden> 
> >> In Lynx options, I have  emacs  as my editor, so when I press  e ,
> >> the emacs window is spawned on top of the lynx window in the X environment.
> > I don't use emacs on my home machine, so I don't know the answer.
>   
> i also noted this as an `unanswered query':
> part of the problem may be that Instructor gave a misleading Subject,
> which is really how to manipulate the X environment
> to get a certain set-up with emacs & Lynx.
> 
> >> The lynx window goes blank.  I want them to be working simultaneously.
> >> The solution is to spawn emacs in the background.
> >> For this I put an ampersand, which makes them independent.
> >> The problem is the emacs window is a scratch buffer.
> >> I need to find out the variable that contains the page name.
> >> Many people, I am sure have found out how to do this
> >> can someone drop an explanation and some more good customisation ideas
> >> that they really enjoyed using during their experience with lynx?
> 
> people at lynx-dev don't mention X-windows very often,
> but you may be luckier in getting an expert with a clearer Subject;
> otherwise, you may be better off trying an X-windows list.
> 
> >> the emacs spawned in the X environment has double spacing.
> >> It seems that it is due to the html environment or macros being loaded.
> >> How do I find out where macros are located and what are being loaded?
> >> Then how do I go about figuring out how to modifying them to fix this? 

When you use emacs to edit html, does it start "sgml-mode"? If so, do
you have netscape mapped to the C-c C-v (browse-url-of-buffer) command?
At some point, I modified mine to point to Lynx instead.  I haven't
done this in a while, but:

See:

 http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/emacs/browse-url.el


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