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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to capture URL in messages like this one
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:35:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878scxu84g.fsf@local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blhtal8u.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:24:58 -0700, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> said:
>>
>>     Eric> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>     >> How to capture the url in message such as this:
>>     >> Mousing over the link shows the URL in echo area but there seems no
>>     >> way to copy it.  It just disappears if you try to mouse to it.
>>
>>     Eric> <TAB> to get to the url, and "w" to copy it.
>>
>>     Eric> That sure looks like spam!
>>
>> From the summary mode you donʼt need to TAB, 'w' will pop up a buffer
>> containing the links it finds in the selected article.

Harry Responds:

That is not the behavior I see and far as I know I have no trick
changes in cmd sequences.

What I see when I press `w' on that message is summary buffer is that
it actually activates the URL and calls the web page.

Eric responded:
> Oh, I figured he actually wanted to copy it for some reason.

Right you are ... thanks again



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25  0:11 Harry Putnam
2020-09-25  1:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-25  7:52   ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-25  8:19     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-25  9:02       ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-25  9:15         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-25 16:12     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-25 16:35       ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2020-09-25 17:51         ` Tassilo Horn
2020-09-26 14:13         ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-25 16:28   ` Harry Putnam

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