On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Al Gilman wrote:
>Henry Nelson opined:
>
>>In short I'm simply saying we've got a product that is superior exactly
>>the way it is. Adding code to make mailto: configurable sorta like
>>telnet:// or ftp:// does not make Lynx better, IMHO. Thus, I ask why?
>
>Then we have an honest difference of opinion. The other way would be
>cleaner, IMHO, not that it makes a big difference.
I haven't been following this whole discussion, but I sure think it should
be configurable. I'm not sure if it's even possible to go to this simple
level of abstraction, but even something as simple as having a $MAILER
variable that is invoked, similar to how basically every program in the
world uses the $EDITOR variable so we can use what the nonexistant entity
wanted us to, vi, instead of whatever icky internal editor..
ok the last part is a joke, but seriously -- having a simple configuration
to automatically invoke an external mail program instead of the default would
be very useful and I sure would use it.
