Re: [Slightly OT] Allow for choosing browser to follow a link
On 29Aug2007 13:35, Kai Grossjohann <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Ctrl-b invokes urlview which provides a list of URLs in the current
| message and allows me to choose one of them to view it. This invokes
| w3m or elinks. This is good.
|
| But from time to time I want to invoke other browsers. Or just copy the
| URL to the X11 clipboard.
|
| Is there an alternative to urlview that would allow me to choose the
| program to run on a case-by-case basis?
I have a macro "H" (for "hrefs") that pipes the message through a script that
lists the URLs and pages them. You can then grab a URL with the mouse
(thus, to the X11 clipboard) and hand it to another browser or whatever.
For simpler things, my standard filter for HTML messages munges the HTML
to present the URLs inline with the text for easy selection with the
mouse. It's a bit buggy but pretty useful quite often.
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Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
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