Re: [Lynx-dev] Default Editor option

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:34:28AM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> This is my first post.  I have joined the list to ask a question about Lynx
> rather than get involved in its development - I hope that’s alright!  I
> should mention that I’m using a cygwin64 version of Lynx (2.8.7rel.1) for the
> SSL support, on Windows 10 x64.
>
> Although I’m embarrassed to ask something so basic, here it is:  how shall I
> go about using the “Default Editor” option to open the currently displayed
> document with notepad, or another external editor, as the Default Editor
> (specified on the Options page and in lynx.cfg), instead of a blank temp
> file?  The following may be clearer:
>
> As a starting point I’ve entered “notepad” in the appropriate field of the
> options page, and notepad does open, but not with the current document
> loaded.  Instead it opens a new blank file.  I’ve tried adding things like
> “%1“, “$1”, “%f”, “$file” etc., to the end of the line, but to no avail. 
> Unfortunately I’m out of ideas, so thanks in advance to anyone that answers
> my boring question!

Lynx is supposed to add the filename, and is supposed to quote it
when the name contains blanks.

But things don't always work. I'd take a look at the trace log
to see what the actual command is.  Here's a quick example showing
the lines to look for, in particular the one with "LYEdit":

        HTParse:      result:`/tmp/file%20name'
        PARAM-EXP:vile
        PARAM-ADD:vile '/tmp/file name'
        PARAM-END:vile '/tmp/file name'
        LYEdit: vile '/tmp/file name'
        stop_curses: done.
        LYSystem(vile '/tmp/file name')
        start_curses: done.
        edit_current_file returns 1

Given that line (which should use double-quotes on Windows), you
should be able to run the same text as a batch-file command.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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