Re: lynx-dev 2-8-3 can't edit local file

[Klaus Weide]

Ok, I assume with 2-8-3 you mean 2.8.3dev.1 or 2.8.3dev.2 - Please give
more exact version when reporting problems.

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:12:32   Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> >> I receive a message :
> >> 'Lynx cannot currently (e)dit remote WWW files.'
> >> 
> >> (when I try to edit a message _locally_...)
> >> 
> >> With 2-8-2 there was no such problem.
> >> 
> >> What can be a solution ?
> >
> >First make sure you have an editor defined (see Options screen).
> Yes, I have an editor, and I can use it in Lynx.
> >Can you edit *any* files from lynx, or was this a special situation?
> I can edit any files locally.
> >Describe in more detail what you were doing (URL of displayed document,
> >contents of INFO ('=') screen).  You were trying to edit "a message"??
> 
> It was in TEXTAREA. In the status line : ^Ve for editor.
> I pressed it, and comes the error message.
> System : Linux 2.2.0

The patch 2.8.3rel.1 -> 2.8.3dev.1 has reverted the meaning of EDIT
(as a KEYMAP key binding) back to the previous meaning (before textarea
editing was introduced).  As I wrote in
<http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0699/msg00196.html>:

  I guess there'll also be some discussion re EDIT/EDITTEXTAREA default
  binding; however, if my choice isn't acceptable, changing the default
  [should] be simple enough.  (docs need checking anyway.)

The documentation and statusline messages are not completely in synch with
the code right now; also from the same message:

  Left to do:  write functions to replace statusline text with hardwired
  keys, like "The 'e'dit command [...]" and "(^Ve for editor)", with an
  actual current binding.  Text may sometimes be misleading, or not give
  "the best" binding.

For now, use 
  KEYMAP:e:DWIMEDIT
in lynx.cfg to get the previous behavior (from 2.8.2, and according to
the statusline message).

Or (a) set "line edit style" (or whatever exactly its called" in the
'O'ptions screen to "Bash-like Bindings", and then (b) use ^E^E or ^Xe
instead of ^Ve.

And please see the CHANGES file for more details on those recent changes.

   Klaus