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Re: extract_url.pl: A Better URL Viewer



On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:58:25AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, March 27 at 09:10 AM, quoth Vladimir Marek:
> >Hi Kyle,
> >
> >> After a bit of work, I've gotten a perl script that I think rivals 
> >> URLView. I call it "extract_url.pl", and it's here: 
> >> http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/
> >
> >I wonder if it wouldn't help to add example output of your script to
> >your page. Especially for people like me who does not know urlview. I
> >would like to try, but I'm not currently getting any html emails :)
> 
> Done!
> 
> It's not just for html emails - it's for any email that may contain a 
> URL (for example, this one -- the extract_url web page's address was 
> in my original email, and is quoted up above). Rather than copying and 
> pasting that URL into your web browser, extract_url.pl does the work 
> for you.
> 
Many terminal programs do this for you already though, e.g. XFCE's
terminal and Gnome's gnome-terminal.  Just right click on the URL and
select "Open Link".

-- 
Chris Green