Re: lynx-dev default browser on W95

[Heather Stern]

address@hidden wrote:
> > I've searched the FAQs and the lynx-dev archives back to '96 and the only
> > mention I've found of making lynx the default browser in W95/98 is the
> > one below from Lord Fido.
...
> > As Fido says, it takes more than an association with .htm[l] files.
> > I think it requires a source code change.
> 
> > Both IE and NetScape have a setting...
> > tell them to 'start your default browser' 

Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> This probably a Windows configuration question, not a lynx one.

Yes and no;  *my* favorite HTML editor (HTMLedPro, for such MSwin folk
as may be following) allows me to set the complete command line to browse
work-in-progress, and a checkbox option for whether it should make a DDE
request or not.  Obviously for use of lynx it'd be no DDE, and the given
commandline would mention the lynx binary.

If the tool he's trying to work with requires DDE, then he either needs
to wrap the DDE call and doctor the registry... yes, that's MSwin config
stuff... and/or lynx needs to honor DDE... no, that's not MSwin's space.

Ideally, I've given him enough that he can figure out a DDE wrapper for
the call, and he will learn enough about DDE in so doing to be able to
add the applicable support to lynx32, leaving everyone a winner, not just
MSwin folks capable of deep wizardry in their registries. :)

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