text editors with elinks or links?

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Thanks for the further clarification.
I will give it a try, first command sample, as I am using shellworld as I 
said.
thanks again,
Karen

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Trevor Astrope wrote:

> Just run that at your shell prompt before you start links or elinks. It
> sets the EDITOR environment variable that elinks will automatically read
> and use as your editor. Just give it a try. If you're not using a bash
> shell, try something like this:
>
> EDITOR=pico ; export EDITOR
>
> or setenv EDITOR pico
>
> One of those should do the trick.
>
> If you don't want to type it every time you login, put it in your
> .bash_profile, .profile or .login, depending on your shell.
>
> Afaik, you can't set the editor within elinks, it can only be changed by
> setting the EDITOR environment variable.
>
> Hth,
>
> Trevor
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> where must this command be entered in the program, and which one?
>> I know I can run pico from my home directory, but I am not talking of that.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Trevor Astrope wrote:
>>
>>> bash$ export EDITOR=pico
>>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings all,
>>>> I am wondering about the chances of using  a text editor like pico
>>>> with the javascript browsers elinks or links?
>>>> I know this can be done with Lynx the cat, as it is used as the editor for
>>>> comments and message windows I encounter when using it at Shellworld.
>>>> is there a place to list the editor of choice in the configurations for
>>>> either program?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Karen
>>>>
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