Re: LYNX-DEV Using Lynx woth web "forums"

[Howard Kaikow]

At 08:48 3/31/98 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
>> If Lynx could spawn a seperate editor for TEXTAREA, similar to the way one 
>> is spawned for mailto: URLs, I think the result would be fairly
intuitive.  
>> It also will save a lot of space onscreen in these web forums :)
>
>I think this is much more realistic than a special internal Lynx mode, but
>there is one caveat.  I suspect a significant proportion of the demand for
>this is from people with captive accounts or from dedicated Lynx terminals;
>shelling to an editor is likely to compromise the security of such systems,
>as most Unix editors aren't designed to lock people in.  That means you 
>can't realistically have it as the only option.

Spawnning an editor would likely be satisfactory. 

The editor could allow files to be included a la pico.
And one could paste into the editor.

I do not recall what editor gets spawned for mailto. I think that it is
pico, the same editor I use with mail and elm.

The people affected by this are those of us that, e.g., dial into a unix
shell account to access the internet. In my case, my ISP makes Lynx the
only browser available to such accounts.

Many people have such accounts as their only internet access.