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Re: [Slightly OT] Allow for choosing browser to follow a link



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On Wednesday, August 29 at 09:15 AM, quoth Gary Johnson:
>I use w3m instead of urlview for the Ctrl-B command.
>
>   macro index \cB ": unset wait_key; set pipe_decode\n|w3m\n: set wait_key; 
> unset pipe_decode\n" "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message"
>   macro pager \cB ": unset wait_key; set pipe_decode\n|w3m\n: set wait_key; 
> unset pipe_decode\n" "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message"
>
>The : command within w3m turns all URL-looking strings in the text 
>into links.  W3m allows you to configure as many as three external 
>browsers that can be used instead of w3m itself to view the current 
>page (M, 2M or 3M) or follow the current link (<Esc>M, 2<Esc>M or 
>3<Esc>M).

Interesting... why do you set pipe_decode first? In html email, w3m 
(my usual inline html renderer) doesn't spit out all the links in 
convenient fashion at the bottom, like elinks does, and what links 
there are are often wrapped to the terminal width. How does w3m handle 
that?

~Kyle
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