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Date: 2022-03-20T08:06:25Z
From: Deepayan Sarkar
Subject: Can browseURL open a lynx browser?
In-Reply-To: <CAC8=1eo5UqQp3Yp4BWX7JdXH4uCcsReHsERrHdFTcvbwWY4MNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:39 PM Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I wish to do :
>
> browseURL("http://www.google.com","lynx")
>
> But this is not opening the lynx browser. I am able to open lynx from
> the Debian command line and lynx is on the PATH.
I haven't used lynx in a while, but
browseURL("http://www.google.com", browser = "elinks -remote")
works for me as long as an elinks session is already running.
Best,
-Deepayan
> When I do :
>
> browseURL("http://www.google.com")
>
> it does open up the url in Firefox.
>
> When I do ?browseURL it says:
>
> If ?browser? supports remote control and R knows how to
> perform it, the URL is opened in any already-running browser
> or a new one if necessary. This mechanism currently is
> available for browsers which support the ?"-remote
> openURL(...)"? interface (which includes Mozilla and Opera),
> Galeon, KDE konqueror (_via_ kfmclient) and the GNOME
> interface to Mozilla. (Firefox has dropped support, but
> defaults to using an already-running browser.) Note that the
> type of browser is determined from its name, so this
> mechanism will only be used if the browser is installed under
> its canonical name.
>
> How can I find out if the -remote openURL interface is supported by lynx?
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim
>
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