I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
clipboard.
I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
Is there a better way?

In <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me> tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> writes:

>I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
>But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
>The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
>clipboard.
>I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
>Is there a better way?

One trick is to use lynx to pull up
the articls, and then once the clip
is on your screen, hit the "=" sign
(no quotes) and that'll bring up
the actual URL (and other info) of
where you are.

But yeah, having an easy way to expand
the shortened URLs would make life
quite a bit more civilized.

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On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:25:12 +0200, tjoen wrote:
>
> I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
> But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
> The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
> clipboard.
> I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
> Is there a better way?

You can type G. But on very long URLs it still need some copy and paste
attempts.

If lucky, the target URL is visible in the source code. To see it, type \ .
If an URL does not fit the screen it expands over several lines, ending
with a \ (has nothing to do with the lynx command \ to call up the
source). Copying and pasting these you need to remove the \ .

You can also try

wget --spider http://...

to get redirections. --spider does not save any results.
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Andreas

On 9/15/21 08:25, tjoen wrote:
> Is there a better way?

Thank you both, the answers are what I was looking for

On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 08:25 +0200,
in article <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me>,
tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> wrote:

> I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
> But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
> The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
> clipboard.
> I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
> Is there a better way?

In the Options (o) menu, under Keyboard Input, I select "Links are
numbered". If I want to see what links appear on any given web-page,
Print (p): Print to screen, will produce a list of the numbered links,
as well as displaying the full, unbroken URLs, even for those which
may appear on multiple lines of an eighty (80) column terminal
display.

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David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com>
Be kind to animals; kiss a shark.

On 9/15/21 19:53, David Ritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 08:25 +0200,
> in article <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me>,
> tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> wrote:
>
>> I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
...
> In the Options (o) menu, under Keyboard Input, I select "Links are
> numbered".

Also helpful. Thank you!