Re: How to copy URL's to clipboard?

[Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> Svend Tollak Munkejord wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I receive html e-mails with external links (of the type
>> "click here", not "http://www...") in them, and for one reason or
>> another, w3m is not always the ideal way of displaying them. Then it
>> would be nice to be able copy the URL to the clipboard, and paste the
>> address into a browser. How can this be done? The URL is shown in the
>> echo area when I move the cursor over the link, but I can't get at
>> it...
>
> Try the `u' command on the link in the article buffer.  If you
> use the Info-like keymap, use the `Y' command instead.  This key
> is bound to `w3m-print-this-url', which copies a url of the link
> into the kill ring.

What would be very nice is a piece of code to recognise when the point
is on a "hidden" url like an html link and then extract the url
automatically, else just the text url.

The one can bind the same key to browse-url-firefox passing the url as
an argument.


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