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Following Terminal Links with URLview
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Following Terminal Links with URLview

Link handling

Specify what you want urlview to open your links with in ~/.urlview after COMMAND. I.e. the line below will make urlview open all urls in Firefox.

COMMAND firefox

I use this link handler to be run by urlview. This will open images in feh, movies/gifs in mpv on loop, will download .pdfs and music files and will open everything else in my browser.

Tell me how to improve this script, since I literally just threw it together a couple days ago.

Getting URLview built into some programs

Here are the configurations I have to get URLview working on some of my main terminal programs.

vim

This sets u to bring up urlview. IIRC it will give you all urls in the open document.

:noremap <leader>u :w<Home>silent <End> !urlview<CR>

newsboat/newsbeuter

urlview is a total life-saver in newsboat. I can browse even twitter feeds in the terminal with it with all multimedia. I map it to capital U here.

external-url-viewer "urlview"
bind-key U show-urls

mutt/neomutt

Again, I map urlview to capital U in mutt as well.

macro index,pager U "<enter-command>set pipe_decode = yes<enter><pipe-message>urlview<enter><enter-command>set pipe_decode = no<enter>""view URLs"
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@Benjman , @g4570n
it's kind late, but
now it's calling linkhandler

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