[elinks-users] Tabbed browsing while using external editor?

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

"Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> writes:

> % When I use emacs in screen (I changed my screen "escape" character
> to ctrl-b), ctrl-b still works: screen "intercepts" the keystroke and
> processes it before emacs can. Can elinks intercept keystrokes?

Screen can do this because it includes a terminal emulator.  If
ELinks allowed you to run an external editor within a tab, ELinks
would have to interpret terminal control codes from the editor's
output and translate them in order to avoid overwriting its
title/menu bar, tab bar, and status bar.  And then ELinks would
also have to recognize a command key like Screen does, preferably
a changeable one.  This all gets rather complex and I think it
would be better to instead run ELinks within Screen and change
ELinks to open a new Screen window for the external editor.
Before that however, bug 181 would have to be fixed.

Bug 181 - External editor only can be launched from master session
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=181
(I think this should say "master terminal", not "master session".
See the comment above struct session in src/session/session.h.)

I too use Emacs.  When I edit an HTML textarea in Emacs, it is
usually for a comment to be posted in Bugzilla; thus the textarea
is initially empty, and I can type the comment e.g. in *scratch*
before I tell ELinks to run the external editor.  Then I just
copy the edited comment to ELinks' temporary file and dismiss it.