[elinks-users] Piping to elinks - skip popup dialog?
It's apparently possible to invoke ELinks as the last step in a pipe and
use it as a pager.
An artificial example might be:
$ cat file | elinks
This fires up a new instance of ELinks that displays this dialog:
┌─┐
│ │
│ What would you like to do with 'stdin' type: text/plain? │
│ │
│ Program ('%' will be replaced by the filename) │
│ │
│ │
│ [X] Block the terminal │
│ │
│ [ Open ] [ Save ] [ Display ] [ Show header ] [ Cancel ] │
└─┘
The [ Open ] button is focused so hitting Enter makes Elinks display
the file's contents.
If I don't specify 'Program' or '%', and ELinks defaults to itself, so
to speak, which makes me think that I should be able to skip the popup.
I played with the options under 'Options Manager - MIME' and ELinks's
command-line switches, but I am still seeing this popup.
Is there any way I could have Elinks skip this dialog?
Thanks,
CJ
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Re: [elinks-users] Piping to elinks - skip popup dialog?
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:12:53PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: If I don't specify 'Program' or '%', and ELinks defaults to itself, so to speak, which makes me think that I should be able to skip the popup. I played with the options under 'Options Manager - MIME' and ELinks's command-line switches, but I am still seeing this popup. Is there any way I could have Elinks skip this dialog? Try piping to something like elinks -force-html. -- Jim Pryor prof...@jimpryor.net ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] Piping to elinks - skip popup dialog?
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:17:30PM EST, Jim Pryor wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:12:53PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: to speak, which makes me think that I should be able to skip the popup. I played with the options under 'Options Manager - MIME' and ELinks's command-line switches, but I am still seeing this popup. Is there any way I could have Elinks skip this dialog? Try piping to something like elinks -force-html. Thanks, but I tried that and it does not do what I want: When I hit the [Open] button after the dialog pops up, the input is rendered in simile-html fashion - i.e. I can navigate to http links, email addresses, etc. With -force-html I only get a long line of characters with no formatting whatsoever. What I'm doing is using the mutt mailer's '|' aka 'pipe' command to switch to Elinks with the current message as input. From that point on I am in 'browser mode', and can navigate the message as if it were a web page, and otherwise benefite from all of Elinks's rendering and navigation features, which is considerably more effective than having the message rendered 'elinks -dump' or harvesting the links via urlview or urlscan. In essence, it's as if I had converted a text file/message to html and pointed ELinks to the resulting file. This work quite well, except that I'm getting a little frustrated at seeing this popup and having to hit Enter all the time. :-) CJ ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] Piping to elinks - skip popup dialog?
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:59:20PM -0500, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote: On 01/22/2010 03:43 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [...] What I'm doing is using the mutt mailer's '|' aka 'pipe' command to switch to Elinks with the current message as input. From that point on I am in 'browser mode', and can navigate the message as if it were a web page, and otherwise benefite from all of Elinks's rendering and navigation features, which is considerably more effective than having the message rendered 'elinks -dump' or harvesting the links via urlview or urlscan. In essence, it's as if I had converted a text file/message to html and pointed ELinks to the resulting file. This work quite well, except that I'm getting a little frustrated at seeing this popup and having to hitEnter all the time. :-) Try running ELinks with -eval 'set mime.default_type = text/html'. This should be the same as using -force-html. I'm not promising you it is the same, but it's supposed to be the same. -- Jim Pryor prof...@jimpryor.net ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
