From 945e8eb6bb07f64aaca42207af3311220ff2e4ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Thomas E. Dickey" Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:16:10 -0400 Subject: snapshot of project "lynx", label v2-7-1ac_0-28 --- lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html | 27 +++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html') 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)
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 Options Menu, the +user is offered an option to include the currently displayed document, which presumeably is a news article with a followup 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 mailto 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. + +

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 mailto URLs, with the qualification that they presently +are supported only by Lynx.

The mailto URL:

@@ -434,6 +438,13 @@ transmission across gateways. If the ENCTYPE was not text/plain, 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. + +

If the mailto URL is not the ACTION for a FORM, and if an external +editor has been defined via the Options Menu, 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.

The finger URL:

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