Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
[Please, don't top post!] On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 04:56:07PM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: I have lynx installed on my machine, and tried a quick look at it, but is not immediately obvious how to get the URL for a link. Start lynx, press 'o' The options menu will appear. Press the 'down arrow' until you get to the 'User mode' option just under 'General Preferences'. (The novice option is probably displayed.) Press the 'Return key' and select the 'Advanced' option using the 'down arrow' key. Press 'Return' (Advanced should be displayed, instead of novice.) Now press the 'up arrow' until you get to the 'Save options to disk' check box. Press 'Return' (An 'X' will appear) then press the 'up arrow' until 'Accept Changes' is highlighted. Press 'Return'. You should now see the URL for a link displayed along the bottom of the screen. -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120304104522.GB2074@tal
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
Chris, Thanks very much! Another helpful idea. One problem is noted below... On Sunday 04 March 2012 05:45:22 am Chris Bannister wrote: Start lynx, press 'o' The options menu will appear. Press the 'down arrow' until you get to the 'User mode' option just under 'General Preferences'. (The novice option is probably displayed.) Press the 'Return key' and select the 'Advanced' option using the 'down arrow' key. Press 'Return' (Advanced should be displayed, instead of novice.) Now press the 'up arrow' until you get to the 'Save options to disk' check box. Press 'Return' (An 'X' will appear) then press the 'up arrow' until 'Accept Changes' is highlighted. Press 'Return'. You should now see the URL for a link displayed along the bottom of the screen. The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203040751.17399.rhkra...@gmail.com
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote: The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) I find that I can do it by just continuing to run the mouse over the link with the left button depressed, until it comes to a halt against the barrier of the end of the URL. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203041531.41576.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 07:51:17AM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) Press the '=' key. Amongst some other (possibly useful) info is: Under 'Link that you currently have selected' Linkname: text of linkname URL: possibly very long URL Now you can easily copy just the text of the URL one line at a time. -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120304160928.GA9644@tal
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:31:41 am Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote: The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) I find that I can do it by just continuing to run the mouse over the link with the left button depressed, until it comes to a halt against the barrier of the end of the URL. Thanks, but I can't seem to get that to work. And, apparently I mispoke / mistyped--I've apparently been using the left mouse button to attempt to copy the URL at the bottom of the screen all along, not the middle mouse button. Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203041329.50926.rhkra...@gmail.com
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Randy Kramer wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:31:41 am Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote: The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) I find that I can do it by just continuing to run the mouse over the link with the left button depressed, until it comes to a halt against the barrier of the end of the URL. Thanks, but I can't seem to get that to work. And, apparently I mispoke / mistyped--I've apparently been using the left mouse button to attempt to copy the URL at the bottom of the screen all along, not the middle mouse button. Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203041329.50926.rhkra...@gmail.com Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html Try opening up the url with lynx first. next hit the = key and you'll bring up a display of information about the page. Near the bottom of that display will be your url. There will be two url: entries on that page, you want the second one of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1203041426240.49...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse button copying, I am not able to copy that from the one line display at the bottom of the screen. (I suspect it can't be done.) I find that I can do it by just continuing to run the mouse over the link with the left button depressed, until it comes to a halt against the barrier of the end of the URL. Have you tried, while in lynx, pressing , or . ? The first, , presents a menu to use an external program on the rendered web page. The second, . presents a menu to use an external program on the highlighted link. No copy/paste is required. These functions can be edited in your lynx.cfg hth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120305005121.GA5281@SDF
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
In lynx you can make bookmarks with the 'a' button. Combine that with a bookmark in your graphical browser to ~/lynx_bookmarks.html That is all. --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f529bca.1060...@xs4all.nl
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:56:07 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: Hijacking this thread Then don't. Start a new one, or better still, do a little research first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jiu9sp$igs$1...@dough.gmane.org
Solved: Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
Jasper, Excellent--exactly what I needed! Thank you very much! Randy Kramer On Saturday 03 March 2012 05:31:38 pm Jasper Noë wrote: In lynx you can make bookmarks with the 'a' button. Combine that with a bookmark in your graphical browser to ~/lynx_bookmarks.html That is all. --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203031859.14853.rhkra...@gmail.com
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Randy Kramer rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it? I have ~/.lynx/external to which I just added this line: EXTERNAL:http:echo %s | xsel -i:TRUE Then I can navigate to a link and hit the `.' key. If there are more than one commands registered for a particular protocol (http in this case, which covers https), lynx will pop up a selection menu, otherwise it'll just run it. Though, in this case you could just as easily register something like: EXTERNAL:http:firefox -new-tab %s:TRUE Actually, looks like out of the box, lynx comes configured for running x-www-browser, so whatever you have for your default browser should kick in (but may not be what you want for new-tab, new-window, profile, etc. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+t9iMxoOSZEQVpMUz389KhiFYK9Kbdim=8r1tn3rh3kpvi...@mail.gmail.com
Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)
Mike, Another excellent approach--thanks! Unfortunately, I've now realized that lynx doesn't display some of the links that I'm interested in--I think because they may be generated by javascript (or java), so I now need to look for a text browser that runs those. I understand edbrowse might be able to do that, so I'll look into that. Randy Kramer On Saturday 03 March 2012 07:09:56 pm you wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Randy Kramer rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it? I have ~/.lynx/external to which I just added this line: EXTERNAL:http:echo %s | xsel -i:TRUE Then I can navigate to a link and hit the `.' key. If there are more than one commands registered for a particular protocol (http in this case, which covers https), lynx will pop up a selection menu, otherwise it'll just run it. Though, in this case you could just as easily register something like: EXTERNAL:http:firefox -new-tab %s:TRUE Actually, looks like out of the box, lynx comes configured for running x-www-browser, so whatever you have for your default browser should kick in (but may not be what you want for new-tab, new-window, profile, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203032033.07541.rhkra...@gmail.com
