Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TD> It sounds like you want to run an external program with the TD> contents of the current page (rather than its URL).
No, that's not it. I want to run an external program (in casu my script) on a link and have the URL of the link modified according to the script. It works great already for any link where it makes sense to change the URL for that link, as for instance getting the "printer friendly" versions of the page the link points to, instead of the beefed up counterparts. Try, if you have the time, to put EXTERNAL:http:leanpage.sh %s:TRUE in your lynx.cfg and then go to e.g. http://www.aftenposten.no and click '.' on a link to an article and see the "printer" version appear, instead of the obnoxiously fluffy original, then you'll see what I mean -- it saves time and bandwidth! The only downside is that it spawns another copy of Lynx (don't know how to prevent that..(?)) and that it doesn't work transparently. Well, I would like it to work for those types of Javascript pop up windows where you might get the contents of the page, just by joining the partial URL in the javascript reference to the host URL, like in the example I provided. It basically means (I think) just to let the command that underlies the EXTERNAL call (excuse sloppy formulation) work on Javascript protocol URLs, i.e if you type '.' on a Javascript link you will get your usual little menu of external programs like you do on other links. It wouldn't break anything in Lynx, since the user doing this presumably knows what he is doing. Morten -- In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it's exactly the opposite. - Ben Tucker, famous vaudeville comedian ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
