[Alpine-info] URLs

[Chris Candreva via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026, sasa via Alpine-info wrote:


> Is there any simple way to get links in html document simply to display so I can cut and paste them into a browser?

> 

> The best I can do is to define a fake URL viewer so that it asks "View selected URL "...

> 

> Ideally it wouldn't waste screen width with "View selected URL "... and it would use the full width of the screen so I can grab those insanely long links that seem to be the bane of my email.

> 

> In a perfect world it would also automatically offer a shortened version to aid copy-paste.

> 

> I absolutely do not want to run a browser from alpine (which is running on a remote text terminal only server). 



I use the following bash script to display the url to copy/paste or click 
to open Firefox, or optionally launch links / lynx. 

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#!/bin/bash

#
# Script to display links from pine,
# Either to click or in a text viewer
#

clear
echo -e "\n\n\nYour URL is below:\n\n\t$@"

echo -e "\n0) Quit"
echo "1) View in Links."
echo "2) View in Lynx"
echo -e "\n(Anything else quits also)\n"
read -p "Enter your selection then <enter>. " K

if [ "$K" = '1' ]; then
	links "$@"
elif [ "$K" = '2' ]; then
	lynx "$@"
fi

clear

exit 0




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