begin quoting boblq as of Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:16:27PM -0800: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 08:29 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: [snip] > > I find tinyurl rather useless myself. I really doubt anyone but the most > > hard core users who really like making life difficult for themselves are > > using a terminal that is incapable of cut and paste of one form or > > another. Nobody really types in url's anymore unless they are serious > > masochists. And if they are masochists why not give them what they want? > > Just give us the full url so we can see where we are going and save > > yourself a step in the process. > > Often long urls are badly wrapped and don't even cut and > paste properly without quite a bit of care. I like and use tinyurls > often.
Mutt displays wrapped lines with a + character prefixed to the wrapped bit. I like this when I'm *reading* an email; however, it makes cutting and pasting a URL a bit of a fine exercise with the mouse. Not good. The *appropriate* solution would be to get mozilla and firefox to compile on my local machines, and then to edit the "Location" box to strip out leading and trailing angle-brackets; remove spaces in URLs, and remove \n+ as well. Plus, make this URL-rewrite ruleset configurable. But that's more work than I want to get into. -Stewart "Now, if someone wants to fund me to tackle this issue..." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
