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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: Ways to copy long URL conveniently
From:       Alexander Dahl <post () lespocky ! de>
Date:       2018-02-28 12:15:47
Message-ID: 20180228121547.uchyrdq7hr5qt3yk () falbala ! home ! lespocky ! de
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Hei hei,

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:28:18AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 06:09:44PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> > Hi, do you guys have any ways to conveniently copy a long URL which spans
> > across several lines and have + prefixes before it. Currently in the pager I
> > have to copy each part separatly in order to advoid copying the + prefix.
> 
> I have the following in my ~/.muttrc:
> 
> # turn off '+' in continuations, which breaks pasting urls.
> set markers=no
> 
> Apparently it is in the manual, but I got it from a post on this
> list years ago.

Thanks for that. I had the same problem and I found it annoying for
years, without ever searching for a solution.

(My mutt runs on a server in a screen session, I connect through ssh.
Firefox removes newlines, if you paste a multiline URL, so now this
works for me.)

:-)
Alex

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