Re: viewing URLs (muttils or lynx?)
On 2008-02-18, Peter Mnster <pmlists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> > In FVWM I have Alt-H bound to run a script with the URL, eg:
> >
> > firefox "`xclip -o`"
>
> Hello Cameron,
>
> Nice idea! And I think, that I can even make the key-binding dependent on
> the window-title in fvwm. I only need to install xclip.
>
> It's still not the very ergonomic pine-like behaviour, but I'll give it a
> try.
>
> Here are the problems that I have with the other methods:
> - urlview make a list with url and the context is lost, furthermore urls
> are corrupted: "item=123" gets "item=3D123"
> - w3m and lynx seem to need real html, so I need to embed every url in a
> <a></a> tag with a filter, besides they are external pagers so the nice
> coloring of quoted text gets lost
w3m doesn't need real HTML. If you type a colon (:), w3m will
search the current page for URLs and turn them into links, along
with coloring them. Then with the cursor on the link, you can hit
Enter to open the link in w3m or hit Esc-M to open the link in an
external browser.
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#w3m
Regards,
Gary