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Re: lynx-dev Anyone thought about a lynx keyboard macro facility?
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Jean-Pierre Radley |
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Re: lynx-dev Anyone thought about a lynx keyboard macro facility? |
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Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:46:44 -0500 |
Larry W. Virden averred (on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 02:37:23PM -0500):
| One of the things that I could really use is the ability to set up a
| stream of keyboard actions that I would like lynx to 'play back' and
| take action upon for automated action purposes.
|
| ...
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| Ideally, the recordings would be perhaps in the form of a language.
| If I were to design such a feature, I might choose a language like perl or
| expect on which to base such a facility, since these languages are frequently
| used for similar capabilities anyways.
Lynx is getting to be very bloated. Why not just use 'expect' for this
sort of thing, rather than start coding 'expect' into lynx?
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