Re: lynx-dev Associating a key to an external program.

[Michel SUCH]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:30:11 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote:

>> 
>> I would like to associate a key or key combination to an external program,
>> like '.' does for external downloading.
>> Is it possible and how?
>
>lynx.cfg
>
>#*** Must be compiled with USE_EXTERNALS to enable EXTERN_LINK, EXTERN_PAGE ***
>#KEYMAP:,:EXTERN_PAGE          # Run external program with current page
>#KEYMAP:.:EXTERN_LINK          # Run external program with current link
>
>and
>
>.h1 External Programs
>
>.h2 EXTERNAL
># External application support.  This feature allows Lynx to pass a given
># URL to an external program.  It was written for three reasons.'
>
But, what I would like to do is starting a program not depending on its
url type but on its mime type.
I don't like the fact that, for example to start a mp3 player, I first
need to download the file and then play it.
I would prefer to be able to pass the url to the player and let it do with
it.


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