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