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Re: web addresses cut with +



On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:59:53AM -0700, William Yardley wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:52:52PM +0200, tannhauser wrote:
> > 
> > had the same problem. urlview is a very nice workaround:
> > 
> > [quote man page]
> > urlview  is  a  screen  oriented  program for extracting URLs from text
> > files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view
> > a specific item.
> 
> Only really useful if you're viewing the URLs on the same machine you're
> reading mail on... for those of us who read mail on a remote machine and
> view webpages on a local machine, this is not so helpful.

I've been thinking about telling urlview to use something like

        echo -n "$URL" | xclip -in

for http and https URLs.

Kai