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diff --git a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html index c90550f4..44fc6f68 100644 --- a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html +++ b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html @@ -348,16 +348,20 @@ to="ngp">(post a followup message)<BR> NNTPSERVER configuration or environmental variable. Inclusion of at least one newsgroup in the URL is required, and additional groups can be specified as a comma-separated list. Wildcarding of newgroup names -is not supported for these URLs. For newsreply and snewsreply URLs, the -user is offered the option to include the currently displayed document, +is not supported for these URLs. For newsreply and snewsreply URLs, if +an external editor has been defined via the <em>Options Menu</em>, the +user is offered an option to include the currently displayed document, which presumeably is a news article with a <em>followup</em> link that was activated, and if confirmed, each line of that document is prefixed -with a right-angle-bracket. These URLs can be used as command line -startfiles (in which case, Lynx will exit after posting the message, -and the newreply or snewsreply URLs degrade to newspost or snewpost -URLs, respectively). They also can be used as HREF attribute values -in any HTML document homologously to <a href="#mailto">mailto</a> URLs, -with the qualification that they presently are supported only by Lynx. +with a right-angle-bracket. The user is expected to edit such an inclusion +so that only the passages relevant to the followup message are retained. + +<p>These URLs can be used as command line startfiles (in which case, Lynx +will exit after posting the message, and the newreply or snewsreply URLs +degrade to newspost or snewpost URLs, respectively). They also can be used +as HREF attribute values in any HTML document homologously to <a +href="#mailto">mailto</a> URLs, with the qualification that they presently +are supported only by Lynx. <HR WIDTH="100%"> <H2><a name="mailto">The <em>mailto</em> URL:</a></H2> @@ -434,6 +438,13 @@ transmission across gateways. If the ENCTYPE was not <em>text/plain</em>, any script which decodes the mailed content should ignore the physical newlines and recognize only hex escaped newline characters as intended to be present in the decoded content. + +<p>If the mailto URL is not the ACTION for a FORM, and if an external +editor has been defined via the <em>Options Menu</em>, the user is offered +an option to include the currently displayed document. If this option is +accepted, each line of that document is prefixed with a right-angle-bracket, +and the prefixed inclusion should be trimmed by the user to just those +passages relevant to the message which will be sent. <HR WIDTH="100%"> <H2><a name="finger">The <em>finger</em> URL:</a></H2> |