Dear list,
I would like to be able to call an external editor for textarea filds in
a web form, but not only from the "master" terminal.
The following is an excerpt from
elinks-0.12-20080414/src/viewer/text/textarea.c:
/** We use some evil hacking in order to make external textarea editor working.
* We need to have some way how to be notified that the editor finished and we
* should reload content of the textarea. So we use global variable
* @c textarea_editor as a flag whether we have one running, and if we have, we
* just call textarea_edit(1, ...). Then we recover our state from static
* variables, reload content of textarea back from file and clean up.
*
* Unfortunately, we can't support calling of editor from non-master links
* session, as it would be extremely ugly to hack (you would have to transfer
* the content of it back to master somehow, add special flags for not deleting
* of 'delete' etc) and I'm not going to do that now. Inter-links communication
* *NEEDS* rewrite, as it looks just like quick messy hack now. --pasky */
[...]
if (op == 0 && !term_->master) {
info_box(term_, 0, N_("Error"), ALIGN_CENTER,
N_("You can do this only on the master terminal"));
return;
}
(Of course it does not work by just remvoing the term_->master check.)
I think, or rather know from my own experience, that calling an external
editor for formfields is a very essential feature, considering that the
current formfield presentation is less than optimal for blind users
using elinks with a braille device and text-to-speech. In fact, it is
very painful. Would it be really that complicated to call an external
editor for inserting data, maybe even using temporary files or sockets,
into an elinks formfield? If so, is there a better elinks-internal
formfield editor code available in an early stage, that would behave in
a way similar to nano as a fullscreen editor?
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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