Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never understood the problem with long URLs. Many > newsreaders let you click on them. If not, you just cut/paste > it into a browser (with a shellscript a couple lines long, you > can start firefox with the URL on the X clipboard with a single > command).
I use Gnus through a screen session, so when I select and copy a long URL I get backslash characters in the copied text (as amusing as it is, w3 is not a satisfying browsing experience for me :^). It's not hard to manually pick out the backslashes, but it's time consuming and kind of tedious. I use an open-source terminal app (iTerm under OS X), so I guess I could hack the "open in browser" function to remove the backslashes... Hmm... Side projects aside, URLs less than 79 characters long are just easier to handle in many ways. Nick -- # sigmask || 0.2 || 20030107 || public domain || feed this to a python print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),' Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAcboefstobudi/psh?') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list