Re: lynx-dev lynx -stdin ?

[David Combs]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:50:05PM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:10:16AM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > > >  
> > > > Lynx Developer(s),  
> > > >   
> > > >         Have you considered adding a -stdin option, to allow accepting 
> > > > HTML  
> > > > directly from a pipe (no URL needed) ?  e.g. such that this would work: 
> > > >  
> > > >   
> > > > > dynamically_generate_html_program | lynx -stdin  
> > > >   
> > > > maybe intially only in batch mode, e.g. to de-HTML-ify text-ish 
> > > > documents  
> > >  
> > > The topic has come up occasionally (not as an explicit option, but asking 
> > > why lynx doesn't read from a pipe - which is harder, but doable on some 
> > > systems by making it read from specific entries under /dev). 
> > >  
> > > -- an option would be doable... 
> >  
> > If such an option IS ever done, why not just a simple hyphen, 
> > just like lots of OTHER tools do: 
> >  
> >    cat foo.html | lynx - 
> 
> lynx already interprets "-" to read options and arguments from standard input.
> so either we drop that or add a new option.

Then maybe   cat foo.html | lynx -- -

  (the "--" meaning "end of options")

David