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Re: odd question re man pages

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On 2022-01-07, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are 
>
>> In a terminal: left click might not do anything but right click will bring
>> up a menu for me which allows me to open the link.
>> 
>> So: man apt, for example, has a URL for bugs at the bottom: if I right click
>> that underlined link, I get the option to open it / copy it or whatever.
>
> The behavior is highly specific to the terminal emulator in question.
> We can't guess how Gene's terminal is behaving (or has the capability
> of behaving) without knowing which one it is.
>



It would seem in gnome-terminal (sorry) hyperlinks are
clickable.

For xterm, I guess there are several hoops to jump through:

https://pbrisbin.com/posts/selecting-urls-via-keyboard-in-xterm/

I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but
then again I've never had that old hacker spirit.

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odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 11:10 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 11:30 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 12:10 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 12:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:10 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 14:10 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:20 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-07 12:50 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 13:40 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
          Re: odd question re man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:20 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-01-07 15:20 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 17:30 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-01-07 19:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 19:50 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2022-01-08 00:50 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-08 05:20 +0100

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