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Re: lynx-dev Re: MAILTO internal page proposal - form with textarea
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: MAILTO internal page proposal - form with textarea |
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 05:57:27 -0600 (CST) |
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> I currently do the latter, via an EXTERNAL: statement in my lynx.cfg
> file:
>
> EXTERNAL:mailto:mutt -s "" %s:TRUE
>
> the only disadvantages being that 1) I need to consciously recognize/
> notice that I am on a mailto: link, and need to hit the "." command,
> and 2) the "mailto:" string itself is passed along as part of the
> address string (which I could automatically prune off using a wrapper
> script that would then invoke mutt, but I've been lazy, and have not
> written it yet :-) ).
[...]
> It would be nice though, if the normal RightArrow/whatever activation
> command would do the mailer invocation automatically, and I wouldn't
> have to manually look for "mailto:" in the statusline, or remember to
> use the "." command.
The CERN Rules translation could be used for something like this, if
mailto: were not handled earlier so that it never reaches that stage.
> FWIW, the real reason that I started using this method, was not because
> of the "uglyness" of the existing interface, but rather because the
> cc: to myself was/is being ignored (besides which, I would prefer having
> a bcc: instead).
Is there a bug there?
Klaus