-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, October 23 at 05:39 PM, quoth Alex Efros: > I know about urlview, but it both doesn't show long urls well and > more complicated to use than just copy&paste (with disabled > markers).
Long URLs are harder to handle than a terminal can deal with, because of email encoding issues. Terminals can deal well with *some* long URLs, but not all. I use the urlview replacement that I wrote: extract_url.pl (http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/). The motivation for my script in the first place was dealing with long URLs, so it does that pretty well. The specific problem I was addressing is that sometimes long URLs are encoded in email in a somewhat unusual way, with removeable spaces added in to wrap the URL to 80 characters, which means you need something that actually understands MIME-encoding to correctly glue it all back together. If you take a look at the screenshots, it shows what happens when you select a really long URL (it displays the whole thing for you). Whether it's more complicated than copy&paste is a matter of opinion; I like it because it means my fingers don't have to leave the keyboard AND it works with both HTML-email and standard email AND it deals with these wrapped URLs in a way that doesn't force me to go back and forth between browser and terminal copying and pasting several times. ~Kyle - -- Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions. -- Montesquieu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQmAQpAAoJECuveozR/AWeA1oP+wRRigC89x1WFPUfmZ7nhZ/o PJEzfGaLFHE6YX1gOl7qYXJ1inAmffRHiFHMgYkeFhvRCLZacBvZFBiApZcjlCWL m9O6EaKSSMGFbViGakbv+cISpToi5bgAB7S0A5ie5hmne3j/dWkYAs4b3y0Ic2W/ n1dkfwUdSxb254vGra/4ah7fxbcWbC7wvPJPRthjscAsFiN1qBSyHbhMoa25hhO0 fTfu2DYnPR2dkZKtr0c3hVOgn0UvaVSEb0deFaS+xNogXpIE7vSBuHBSp2fYmRFt vpEoeupNITSzF3xhb+k+j2959LO3ojO4l03fMGjBOZUlznJPH/NGUSaWF+1wqWND JX8Py/gLDPDh5teElauIIZwBCCaLpXks/k32xmN+UdWMocmSfJ2dFLfBUuBA+0sh ptWgTZrjqq2jz0dFxEY4rF8niLAAZEATQLHLoHMvkVz6pENd/vTFraOyITSg87Xq qpzEBSqeL0lUuvvtVbaSy8Vu7OxFOAvzVhGMXV/NK/A3+RnD+9A05tjKA5HDrt87 NoInQAffVX9TfWUR1ixbmBvfUcEYc6Bspkbj9+08Qql7+7VEbjdhHUYfTNDUS89W n1ImQMc0gSiejdDsKoVyuYC6wMf94nAEwO7Mjk+Exsy7wQQUSkQyBobAQYisj5BH tBNo2TnqjqrqOSKL9daP =M8Q9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
