... in an emacs window, I can 'mid-mouse-it' to open the text. [how] Can I open it in a window depending on its type ? Eg. for a *.html, can I indirectly use lynx, which via: 'lynx -dump <filePathName>' will render it ? I don't have a general answer for you, but on Windows, yes, you can, using w32-browser.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MsShellExecute#w32-...

...an emacs window, I can 'mid-mouse-it' to open the text. [how] Can I open it in a window depending on its type ? Eg. for a *.html, can I indirectly use lynx, which via: 'lynx -dump <filePathName>' will render it ? dired-x.el (part of GNU Emacs) has a feature to "guess" the right shell command, maybe that helps. From my ~/.emacs (eval-after-load 'dired '(progn (require...

...an emacs window, I can 'mid-mouse-it' to open the text. [how] Can I open it in a window depending on its type ? Eg. for a *.html, can I indirectly use lynx, which via: 'lynx -dump <filePathName>' will render it ? I don't have a general answer for you, but on Windows, yes, you can, using w32-browser.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MsShellExecute#w32-browser http://...

...it in a window depending on its type ? Eg. for a *.html, can I indirectly use lynx, which via: 'lynx -dump <filePathName>' will render it ? TIA. Yep, you sure can. I've ... the URL. So, for example, you could configure it to use a text based browser like w3m or lynx for local files that are probably documentation and fairly simple and use something like firefox for urls that are ...

Marshall Price <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in news:13nqf13dm20s621@corp.supernews.com: lynx 2.8.5-4 is the latest one offered by cygwin setup.exe. Do you know of any advantage to using lynx with cygwin rather than without it? Not that I know of, no.

...news:13nk94dslovkbf5@corp.supernews.com: Upgrading to lynx 2.8.6 solved the problem. ...6 for Windows at two sites: http://lynx-win32-pata.sourceforge.jp/ http://pervalidus.50webs.org/cygwin/lynx/ Did you install one of those, compile ... it with the cygwin package manager? lynx 2.8.5-4 is the ...you know of any advantage to using lynx with cygwin rather than without it?...

... <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in news:13nk94dslovkbf5@corp.supernews.com: Upgrading to lynx 2.8.6 solved the problem. Glad you got it working; I... I found precompiled binaries of 2.8.6 for Windows at two sites: http://lynx-win32-pata.sourceforge.jp/ http://pervalidus.50webs.org/cygwin/lynx/ Did you install one of those, compile it yourself, or install it with the ...

... <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in news:13nk94dslovkbf5@corp.supernews.com: Upgrading to lynx 2.8.6 solved the problem. Glad you got it working; I... I found precompiled binaries of 2.8.6 for Windows at two sites: http://lynx-win32-pata.sourceforge.jp/ http://pervalidus.50webs.org/cygwin/lynx/ Did you install one of those, compile it yourself, or install it with the ...

... Price <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in news:13nk94dslovkbf5@corp.supernews.com: Upgrading to lynx 2.8.6 solved the problem. Glad you got it working; I was out .... I found precompiled binaries of 2.8.6 for Windows at two sites: http://lynx-win32-pata.sourceforge.jp/ http://pervalidus.50webs.org/cygwin/lynx/ Did you install one of those, compile it yourself, or install it with the ...

....supernews.com: I'm running lynx (without cygwin) and notice that ... nor does changing color-style (lynx.lss or other -lss-FILENAME).... drive by finding it within lynx (with file:///d:/) and pressing ...unaffected. How do you start lynx? I use a desktop shortcut...menu link (Start>Programs>Browsers>Lynx) to a batch file in...environment variables, etc. Upgrading to lynx 2.8.6 solved the...