Subject: keeping a file of urls

From: Cheryl Homiak <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:25:33 -0700 (PDT)

I don't know if there is any way to set this up in Pine.  Just as I can
take an address out of an email and save it to my addressbook, I'd like to
be able to have a file for urls people send me.  I do know about
bookmarking and have a bookmark file, and I am able to view urls directly
from Pine, but I don't allways have time to view an url at the time and
decide whether or not to bookmark it.  So I end up saving the whole
message, and then have to go back through messages later and check
urls.  Is there any way to set up an url file and send urls to it?

Cheryl

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:56:19 -0700 (PDT)

Try using the attached shell script as your URL-viewer in Main, Setup,
Config.  All it does is echo the first argument (the URL, in this case) to
a file (~/pine-urls), and then opens the URL with lynx.  Of course, you'll
need to run "chmod +x bookmark" to make the script executable.  Feel free
to edit the script to put the urls in a different file, run a different
browser, or do anything else you want.

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From: Cheryl Homiak <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:20:54 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks, Scott!  I'll try this right away; should work.

Cheryl

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:40:18 +0100 (BST)

On 00-07-22 Cheryl Homiak <[email-masked]> wrote:
> I don't know if there is any way to set this up in Pine.
> Just as I can take an address out of an email and save it to
> my addressbook, I'd like to be able to have a file for urls
> people send me.  I do know about bookmarking and have a
> bookmark file, and I am able to view urls directly from Pine,
> but I don't allways have time to view an url at the time and
> decide whether or not to bookmark it.  So I end up saving the
> whole message, and then have to go back through messages
> later and check urls.  Is there any way to set up an url file
> and send urls to it?

I would LOVE a feature like this in Pine. I keep lists of URLs in
messages in IMAP folders so I can access them from anywhere but
it would be fabulous if Pine had this feature built in. It would
work just as Cherly describes, e.g., you are viewing a message
and you type T for take and then you would be prompted with

Take to :
              A [Addrbook]  S SetScores    F Filters
^C Cancel     R Roles       I Indexcolor   U URLbook
                                           ^^^^^^^^^
                                           this is new!

And then the URLbook would work the same way that Addrbooks work,
i.e., you could add a comment, you could store it on an IMAP
server, etc.

Great idea!
Nancy

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From: Cheryl Homiak <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:04:59 -0700 (PDT)

Yes, Nancy's idea is exactly what I have in mind--it would be wonderful as
a built-in feature!  However, Scott's script also works beautifully!

Cheryl