Re: -force_html: fixate for follow-up pages?

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 01:39:59AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote in
>  <[email protected]>:
>  |On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>  |> Sorry should this have been asked in the past, but the archive is
>  |> inaccessible for me, the marc.info archive stopped tracking in
>  |> 2002, and the mail-archive one in 2004.
>  |>=20
>  |> The question: is it possible to use -force_html in a way that, if
>  |> i follow a link in the opened document, that is also opened "as
>  |> via -force_html"?
>  |
>  |You could do something like that by adding an EXTERNAL in lynx.cfg:
>  |
>  |I do this (and other programs) for testing:
>  |
>  |EXTERNAL:ftp:oldlynx %s:TRUE
>  |EXTERNAL:file:oldlynx %s:TRUE
>  |EXTERNAL:http:oldlynx %s:TRUE
>  |EXTERNAL:nntp:oldlynx %s:TRUE
>  |EXTERNAL:snews:oldlynx %s:TRUE
>  |
>  |If I type a "," (comma) on a link, lynx gives me a menu with
>  |the choices from my lynx.cfg
>  |
>  |"k" says comma is bound to EXTERN_PAGE:
>  |
>  |,           EXTERN_PAGE   run external program with current page =20
>=20
> After adding --enable-externs
>=20
>   EXTERNAL:file:lynx -force_html %s:TRUE
>=20
> spawns via "."!
>=20
> Thank you.

no problem (report bugs)

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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