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).
I use the following bash script to display the url to copy/paste or click
to open Firefox, or optionally launch links / lynx.
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to display links from pine,
# Either to click or in a text viewer
#
clear
echo -e "\n\n\nYour URL is below:\n\n\t$@"
echo -e "\n0) Quit"
echo "1) View in Links."
echo "2) View in Lynx"
echo -e "\n(Anything else quits also)\n"
read -p "Enter your selection then <enter>. " K
if [ "$K" = '1' ]; then
links "$@"
elif [ "$K" = '2' ]; then
lynx "$@"
fi
clear
exit 0
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