Re: [Lynx-dev] Goto URL whose name is provided by a program ?

[Stefan Caunter]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Sébastien Hinderer
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> At the Goto RUL prompt, I'd like to be able to type something like
> `script args`
> (with the back-quotes)
> so that lynx would run script passing it args and would read the URL to
> go to from the standard output of this execution.
> I've checked the used manual bu couldn't find such a feature.

Adding shell access there would seem unusual; at the risk of
overgeneralizing, all browsers try mightily to prevent this.

Use --cmd_script in combination with your shell, or use a wrapper with
your favourite scripting language.

__Stef