[Vimperator] Pasting of URLs

Martin Stubenschrott stubenschrott at gmx.net
Mon Jan 28 06:56:56 PST 2008


On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> I fairly often want to visit a link sent to me via a text email.  If 
> these links are too long mutt inserts new lines into the URL, and when I 
> paste that into an :open vimperator 0.5.3 says:
> 
> Not an editor command: 
> open http://...
> ...
> ...
> 
> (1) Could vimperator figure out that the paste is all one action and 
> remove \n automatically?  (2) When you are about to paste in a URL and 
> already hit o or t, could vimperator accept the input in the main window
> in addition to just the "ex" command line?

That sounds good, and it is already quite high on my TODO, but not as
easy as you might think :( But time is short, as i am currently evaluating...

> The best work-around is to use urlview with mutt for both of these, so
> you avoid copy and paste in the first place but these two enhancements 
> would still be nice to have.

... how to best implement Muttator:

http://vimperator.cutup.org/index.php?title=Muttator

with that, I could finally get rid of my often hated mutt :(

--
Martin


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