Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: how to maximize EXTERNAL-use?, etc.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> > > > > 20050208 12:00, Thomas Dickey >>>>
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chuck Martin wrote
> > If that isn't the source,
> > w3m will be looking at the plain text that Lynx produced.
>
> But that's the case for which EXTERNAL is useful.
> You can define more than one EXTERNAL command.
> <<<<<<<<
> OK, for what is EXTERNAL good, and how uzed?

EXTERNAL defines an application to run with the given URL (depending on
whether it's the page or the link).  If you have more than one defined,
lynx shows a popup menu to choose from.

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