Re: lynx-dev Re: Forms handling

[dickey]

> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999, Mark E. Crane (address@hidden) said: 
> | 
> | Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to spawn an 
> | external editor, like JOE, from within a forms textarea box 
> | while using Lynx.  It wouldn't be an issue if we could cut 
> | and paste/multitask with our 286/1mb machines, but we 
> | haven't figured that one out yet.  I searched the archives, 
> | and the last mention of this that I could find dated back to 
> | Lou Mountulli in 1994.  I can't believe how much the web has 
> | changed in 4 years. 
>  
> Heh.  It's being worked on, even as we speak ... 
>  
> Actually, I've posted an "interim solution", based on someone else's 
> patch, earlier this month.  Look in the archives again, and search 
> for the word "experimental" in the subject.  You need the original 
> patch, and my last update to apply on top of that, for things to work 
> correctly.  Probably want to read thru the text of the other messages 
> in that thread, too. 
>  
> I'm working on a more "seemless" solution, as time permits, but I'm 
> not real familier with lynx's code, structs, etc, so the going is a 
> bit more slowly than I'd like ... 

when you think it's stable enough, I'll put it in (ifdef'd).  my impression
from your earlier posting was that you thought it was still too experimental.
  
> /kim 


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