Hi Jonas,
Thanks for the prompt reply to my problem. PLease see below for
one more question.
Ideally I want to spawn off a new process based on a local link but
parameterize the call (e.g, vi +115 HelloWorld.java) based on link specific
parameters.
I'm really impressed with elinks and hope to use it ... but this is
the only snag? Any ideas on how I can achieve this with elinks. I would
also like to run the compiler via elinks (e.g., javac HelloWorld.java).
Any ideas?
It depends on how much of this JavaDoc-esque HTML you are in control of.
One problem is that if you specify an external handler, which seems to
be what you want, ELinks will create a copy of the local file in a temp
dir and you probably want to edit the file 'in place'. So if you can
create a small file for each link with a special extention and
containing the path to the file and the line to edit and then map that
extension to an external handler that will start vi or whatever you want
to do -- it could be a small shell script -- I think this could work.
This will also make it possible to have ELinks release it's control of
the terminal while your little shell script does it's thing.
Cool. I do have full control of all the JavaDoc-esque files. So I
could call a local CGI that produces output with a mime-type that invokes
an external handler. I definitely want to stay inside the current
terminal and you're right I would like to update the file in situ. But how
would I pass the line number to the external handler? (e.g./usr/bin/vi
+120 HelloWorld.java)?
So if I had a local CGI
(edit.cgi?line=129&program=HelloWorld.java) I could return a plain/text
MIME type which invokes a
/usr/bin/wrap_vi_to_overcome_tmp_file_problem_handler +120
/full/pah/to/HelloWorld.java).
Is this how I could solve it? How could I pass parameters to the
handler?
Maybe you should just convince us to fix the caching of local files in
temp directories, and make things much easier for you. ;)
I think I saw this was discussed in the history (bug 121)? I think
you could make elinks even more powerful as a terminal form/windowing
interface to the OS. I plan to use it to bridge the web and console world
- the table and form rendering is great! ... how about a link protocol ...
that the user can use to invoke a local shell? exec:// system:// or some
sort of local "system" call which is an extended local CGI? Security is
not a problem - it could be turned off by default.
Fingers crossed I can solve my problem ... without needing a new
feature though ...
Nige
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