From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3889 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David W. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Specifying Lynx as a W3 browser Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:57:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <199511080557.AAA02365@panix3.panix.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144707 27706 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:11:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no X-From-Line: dc@panix.com Tue Nov 7 21:57:29 1995 Return-Path: dc@panix.com Original-Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [198.7.0.4]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA12845 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:57:22 -0800 Original-Received: (from dc@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.7/8.7/PanixU1.3) id AAA02365; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:57:26 -0500 (EST) Original-To: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) In-Reply-To: from "Steven L. Baur" at Nov 7, 95 08:46:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Lines: 29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3889 > > I got used to running Lynx out of an Xterm with exmh, and the lack of > support from Gnus was getting on my nerves. Deride Lynx all you want, > it's still (by far) the fastest way to get information off the World > Wide Web. I got used to using lynx on a vt102 (no Xwindows). Is it possible to co-ordinate lynx and Gnus in an vanilla v102 environment ? David W. Crawford dc@panix.com > The attached function may be used as follows: > (setq gnus-browse-url 'gnus-lynx-start-url) > > > (defun gnus-lynx-start-url (url) > "Start the Lynx w3 browser on a URL." > (start-process (concat "lynx" url) nil "xterm" "-e" "lynx" url)) > > > -- > steve@miranova.com baur >