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openurl.pl and w3m |
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Monday Jan 11 8:58:47 2021 |
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Before I switched to weechat, I used irssi for several years, it was |
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really kewl to use the good old duo "screen + irssi" like the kewl |
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kids did. |
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Since I started using "tmux + weechat" I never looked back. But since |
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weechat was mysteriouly removed from sdf-eu I had to go back to irssi. |
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One of the scripts I liked the most, and I used on many occasions was |
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openurl.pl It grabs all the urls in the buffers and allows you to |
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easily open them in w3m (I am talking http links here although the |
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script also allows you to open ftp and mail links). |
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https://scripts.irssi.org/ |
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Now that I am using it again I must say I'd really be enjoying the |
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script 100% if it weren't for one thing: w3m (or maybe two...) |
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Do not get me wrong, I like w3m, I think it is a great web browser and |
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pager. Put the blame on me but I feel clumpsy using it because the |
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keystrokes are not in my brain muscle and very often I find myself |
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having to use my w3m cheetsheet to use it properly. |
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The second problem is that w3m is hardcoded in openurl.pl (as well as |
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ncftp and mutt). I do not know much about perl but I guess it should |
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be pretty easy to use variables for these programs. I might take a |
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serious look at it someday and maybe improve it, but for the time |
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being, my lazy solution was to s/w3m/elinks/ and be done with it. |
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Now I can take the experience of quickly opening urls to a different |
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level using a text browser I really feel comfortable with and with |
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which I can easily store bookmarks and handle tabs like a pro ;-) |
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since many many elinks keystrokes are hardcoded in my brain. |
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Maybe hardcoding is not that bad after all ... (just joking) |
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