UrlView

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Overview

urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view a specific item.

urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs from the specified text files.

Urlview is to be used with Mutt to extract urls from a mail and launch a browser to view it.

Install

$ sudo portinstall portinstall textproc/urlview

Configuration

The default browser is lynx which may not be useful for all URLs. The below config override opens a new tab with the Opera browser (Linux version on FreeBSD). ^b opens the URL in Mutt.

[buffy] ~> cat ~/.urlview 
COMMAND /usr/X11R6/bin/linux-opera -newpage %s
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