Darxus on Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:10:33 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Some Comments on w3m


On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 aab@drexel.edu wrote:
> 
> >   Lastly, although I never got around to including this code, someone
> >   had patchs that linked Lynx to Screen so that you could open a link
> >   into a new screen ... and since I'm one of those junkies who has an
> >   average of 15 netscape windows open at any time (and finds himself
> >   cursing profusely when the browser crashes) this was a feature I'd
> >   always found interesting.
> 
> Hey, I feel your pain.  :)  I'm the same way; I want to check out a
> link, but I don't want to have to wait for the browser to re-render the
> page when I hit Back or (with NS) have to find where I was on the page
> (if it's a really long page).
> 
> That patch sounds really interesting.  I assume that it only works in
> X?  I'd be interested in trying it out.  Do you have it, or have an URL
> to it?  Do tell.  :)

Sounds like you have not seen the wonders of screen.  I know you have it
at netaxs.  Go type "screen" at the command prompt.  It's a way to do.. do
like multiple virtual terminals... kind of... over telnet & stuff.  

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