Re: [Lynx-dev] Line Formatting in Forms

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Martin McCormick wrote:

>         Is there anything I can do in lynx to solve the following
> problem?
>
>         On many forms, one can type free-formed text on a page that
> appears like:
>
>   Announcment:*
>
>   I type something and the _'s
>   get replaced with characters.____________________________________
>   _________________________________________________________________
>   _________________________________________________________________

yes - that looks like a textarea

>         The best way would be to be able to use VI, for example, and
> have it take care of the word wrapping.  I did put

You can edit textarea's using an external editor.  That's done by typing 
control/X and "e".  This doesn't apply to form-fields (which are generally 
the single-line fields).

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