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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).

Also... in my w3m, pressing : doesn't seem to do anything, and 
pressing M just makes it say "Can't browse stdin". I presume you have 
something in your w3m config that changes it's behavior?

~Kyle
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