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 <rhkramer@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.
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