On Tue, 20 Jan 2026, sasa via Alpine-info wrote:
Is there any simple way to get links in html document simply to
display so I can cut and paste them into a browser?
The best I can do is to define a fake URL viewer so that it asks
"View selected URL "...
Ideally it wouldn't waste screen width with "View selected URL
"... and it would use the full width of the screen so I can grab
those insanely long links that seem to be the bane of my email.
In a perfect world it would also automatically offer a shortened
version to aid copy-paste.
I absolutely do not want to run a browser from alpine (which is
running on a remote text terminal only server).
What is running at the local end ?
I set url-viewers to (a script which runs)
tty-copy
(not part of Ubuntu, but available at https://github.com/jirutka/tty-copy).
On terminals which support OSC 52*, this puts the URL into the copy-paste
buffer, so that you go to the local browser URL bar and paste.
*Some terminal programs support OSC 52, some do not, since allowing a
remote program to set your paste text has security implications, as a rogue
program could leave you one click from running a command of their choice
in a shell window.
--
Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
[email protected]
_______________________________________________
Alpine-info mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman23.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
