On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Atsuhito KOHDA wrote: > Hi all, > > I got the following request in Debian Bug Tracking System. > > In .mailcap I have > audio/x-wav; aplay '%s' > It's annoying that the whole lynx window must disappear > during when I'm playing a .wav. > > I guess the same thing happens with an other external commands. > > I'm not sure if this is really a bug but I'd like to hear > an opinion from the developers.
I don't think it's a bug. The user could (in principle) write a mailcap entry that works around it (by putting the external program into the background and redirecting its output to /dev/null for instance). lynx cannot guess whether it should do that itself - it can only handle the cases where the external application's output has to be flushed, etc., before resuming its own output (such as the samples/lynxviewer script that I wrote a few years ago). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
