On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:05:10PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at > 08:53 Uhr +0000: > > I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the > context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then using > elinks' option to pass a link or current URL to an external > application or command, if elinks can't deal with it itself. That > way it's possible to copy the URL into /tmp/screen-exhange, then do > something in screen. > > Sounds like a lot of ifs and loose parts to a task that we all end up > doing dozen times a day. A good tool would let me accomplish such a > task without engaging my brain, and with one or two key presses, don't > you think?
Well, since you asked what I think: I think that following links without engaging my brain is dangerous behavior, and one of the reasons I use Mutt is to interrupt that behavior before it becomes established. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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