Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:40:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Karl Vogel <vogelke+unix@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mutt and http//url??? Message-ID: <20130323014016.GB1983@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20130323003907.C53EBBF82@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> References: <20130322213615.GA23467@tao.thought.org> <20130323003907.C53EBBF82@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 08:39:07PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:15 -0700, > >> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> said: > > G> in the past couple years i've sub'd to the nytimes and other places > G> where the http string is several dozens of bytes. in my mutt at least, > G> there are "+" marks embedded at the beginning of each new lines. so > G> that when i mouse lick on the url, > > Don't lick your mouse. That's gross. but it was so tasty! 'specially with chocolatte syrup. > G> i almost invariably get either Nothing from my browswer, or the wrong > G> page. > > You might want to try urlview, bound to Ctrl-B in mutt by default. It's a > screen-oriented program for extracting URLs from text files, putting > them in a menu, and letting you run a command to view a specific item. > > If you're on a FreeBSD system, it's in /usr/ports/textproc/urlview. this was one of the things I tried. I followed the instructions exactly--with urlview and ^B. eventually I wound up with the list but it was hard to decide which was the text! maybe leave o ne konsole wide open on my 4th workspace > -- > Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company > > Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, > and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. --Rebecca Richards > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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