re: tabbed browsing with screen

[Simon Pole]

Hi Screen-Users,

Using lynx, I've set up screen to enable tabbed browsing as seen in the 
Mozilla-Firefox browsers.  The way I did it seems a bit clunky, and I 
wondered if anyone else could see a more elegant way of doing it.

1)  Opening html links from lynx in another window.

I added a call to a shellscript from lynx.cfg like this:

EXTERNAL:http:screen_url.sh %s:TRUE

(where %s is the link to be passed to the shellscript)

The screen_url.sh is one line:

screen -X exec screen -t "$*" lynx "$*"

(Lynx must be compiled with the use externals flag.  The "." character 
is then used to open the highlighted link in a new window.)

2) Text links

To enable tabbed browsing of non-html links, I first created the source 
file "turltrig.scr" with these commands:

writebuf
exec texturl.sh

The texturl.sh script was this:

U=$(cat /tmp/screen-exchange)
screen -t $U lynx $U

Then a new binding in screenrc to execute the source file:

bind ^t source turltrig.scr

The following process then opens text links in a new window:

1) Enter copy mode and highlight link to be opened.
2) ^t to call the source file and write the highlighed link to 
/tmp/screen-exchange
3) The texurl.sh script then passes the link from the screen-exchange 
file to lynx in a new window.

Can anyone see a better way of doing this?

Cheers
Simon Pole