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Hello, |
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> urlview has served me faithfully for many years in conjunction with |
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>mutt. In a recent install, I find it's no longer available (python |
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>2.7?). |
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Stated reason was "upstream dead" (which seems the case since 2013, |
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with issues on github[1])... |
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>extract_url is touted as a drop-in replacement for urlview. I |
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>emerged it and did some RTFM, ending up more confused than ever. I want |
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>to display urls on a simple menu, just like urlview, select, and pass |
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>the selected url to my palemoon email profile... |
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>/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p email |
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I don't know urlview, but FWIW, I use the mouse or cursor in e.g. |
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emacs to select the URL (or just a part) as usual and then |
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Ctrl+"8th-Button" (actually lower thumb button, use xev / evtest to |
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find the right button number) to call the browser, done via xbindkeys: |
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# call browser with selected text as URL |
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"/home/dh/bin/browser $(xsel -o)" |
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Control + b:8 |
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You can use pretty much any unused key-combination with or without the |
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mouse as trigger. |
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(that ~/bin/browser is just my little wrapper-shellscript adding e.g. |
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a profile option, a '-new-tab' if the browser is already running or |
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calling another unliked, but needed for some specific pages, browser...) |
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Ah: x11-misc/xbindkeys x11-misc/xsel |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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[1] https://github.com/sigpipe/urlview/issues |
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