1:13 p.m.
Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get it
into the clipboard?
If you try to stripe a selectable field the arrow pointer turns into
the hand and it won't mark the text.
If you start the stripe before the url or after the url and stripe
backwards you always pick up extraneous characters.
John
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1:27 p.m.
On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
it
into the clipboard?
No. I use Object > Link > Save > Text and drag to !Edit on the icon
bar, then copy from there or save the file to where I want it.
I have an outstanding feature request to add
Menu > Object > Link > Copy to clipboard
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
1:56 p.m.
On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
> Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
> it into the clipboard?
No. I use Object > Link > Save > Text and drag to !Edit on the icon
bar, then copy from there or save the file to where I want it.
Shift-adjust-click on a link allows its URL to be saved where you will.
Tony
2:58 p.m.
Tony Moore wrote
On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
>> it into the clipboard?
>
> No. I use Object > Link > Save > Text and drag to !Edit on the icon
> bar, then copy from there or save the file to where I want it.
Shift-adjust-click on a link allows its URL to be saved where you
will.
Thanks Tony - that is just what I was looking for!
John
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3:06 p.m.
In message <89f29a3253.old_coaster(a)old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>
Tony Moore <old_coaster(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
Shift-adjust-click on a link allows its URL to be saved where you
will.
Well I'll go to foot of my stairs* I never knew that -- thanks Tony!
Chris.
*Except I don't have any stairs...
Tony
5 p.m.
On 26 Mar 2013 Tony Moore wrote:
On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
>> it into the clipboard?
>
> No. I use Object > Link > Save > Text and drag to !Edit on the icon
> bar, then copy from there or save the file to where I want it.
Shift-adjust-click on a link allows its URL to be saved where you
will.
That's just a short cut for Object > Link > Save > ANT URL
It doesn't copy the URL to the clipboard.
Incidentally Shift-Select-click = Object > Link > Download target
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
9:04 a.m.
The following bytes were arranged on 26 Mar 2013 by Richard Porter :
Incidentally Shift-Select-click = Object > Link > Download
target
One of the things I most wish NetSurf would do is an option to invoke
the download window externally - i.e. links sent over the AcornURI
protocol, which may have originated in an email, or possibly even
manually extracted from the source of a page which NetSurf doesn't want
to play nice with.
In the case that said link goes to, say, a large image, it would be so
useful to be able to directly download it without being forced to wait
for NetSurf to attempt to render it first.
This could probably be satisfactorily fixed just by adding an extra
button to the 'Open URL' window.
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2:08 p.m.
In message <c5fb963253.iyojohn(a)rickman.argonet.co.uk>
John Rickman Iyonix <rickman(a)argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
it
into the clipboard?
If you try to stripe a selectable field the arrow pointer turns into
the hand and it won't mark the text.
If you start the stripe before the url or after the url and stripe
backwards you always pick up extraneous characters.
Hi John,
Menu over the Netsurf page then use Page > Export >Text. Save text
into Ovation or Easi Writer and then delete what you do not need.
Cheers
Alan
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6:34 p.m.
In article <7e0f9c3253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan Leighton
<alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
[Snip]
Menu over the Netsurf page then use Page > Export >Text. Save
text
into Ovation or Easi Writer and then delete what you do not need.
Wow. That would be an extreme way of extracting a URL from even only a
20KB web page. If you've seen some of mine, you wouldn't want to do that
unless you have lots of time to waste!
As others have said, <Shift><Adjust> over the link pops up a URL save box
which can even be dragged to a NetSurf address field or nearly anywhere
else you want it to be.
2:47 a.m.
In message <5332b46317tim(a)timil.com>
Tim Hill <tim(a)timil.com> wrote:
In article <7e0f9c3253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan
Leighton
<alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
[Snip]
> Menu over the Netsurf page then use Page > Export >Text.
Save text
> into Ovation or Easi Writer and then delete what you do not need.
Wow. That would be an extreme way of extracting a URL from even only
a
20KB web page. If you've seen some of mine, you wouldn't want to do that
unless you have lots of time to waste!
As others have said, <Shift><Adjust> over the link pops
up a URL save box
which can even be dragged to a NetSurf address field or nearly anywhere
else you want it to be.
Teach a wise man and he is yet wiser. I wouldn't call it extreme for
have done that for years and it really is quite flexible and quick.
Now to try your way.
Thanks
Alan
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5:25 a.m.
In article <b276e13253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan Leighton
<alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
In message <5332b46317tim(a)timil.com> Tim Hill
<tim(a)timil.com> wrote:
> In article <7e0f9c3253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan
Leighton
> <alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> [Snip]
>> Menu over the Netsurf page then use Page > Export
>Text. Save text
>> into Ovation or Easi Writer and then delete what you do not need.
> Wow. That would be an extreme way of extracting a URL from even
only
> a 20KB web page. If you've seen some of mine, you wouldn't want to do
> that unless you have lots of time to waste!
> As others have said, <Shift><Adjust> over the link
pops up a URL save
> box which can even be dragged to a NetSurf address field or nearly
> anywhere else you want it to be.
Teach a wise man and he is yet wiser. I wouldn't call it extreme
for
have done that for years and it really is quite flexible and quick.
Now to try your way.
I was thinking particularly of a news page I maintain which can have tens
of very similar links and to find the correct one in an editor you have
to invoke search and still I have ended up with the wrong one! Agreed
that on a very simple page, what you describe is adequate for the task.
Pleased to see that <Select><Adjust> pops up in !Help with NetSurf so it
shouldn't be news to anyone. ;-)
6:43 a.m.
In message <5332eff287tim(a)timil.com>
Tim Hill <tim(a)timil.com> wrote:
In article <b276e13253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan
Leighton
<alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> In message <5332b46317tim(a)timil.com> Tim Hill <tim(a)timil.com> wrote:
>> In article <7e0f9c3253.alan(a)ntlworld.com>, Rev Dr Alan
Leighton
>> <alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> [Snip]
>>> Menu over the Netsurf page then use Page > Export
>Text. Save text
>>> into Ovation or Easi Writer and then delete what you do not need.
>> Wow. That would be an extreme way of extracting a URL from
even only
>> a 20KB web page. If you've seen some of mine, you wouldn't want to do
>> that unless you have lots of time to waste!
>> As others have said, <Shift><Adjust> over the
link pops up a URL save
>> box which can even be dragged to a NetSurf address field or nearly
>> anywhere else you want it to be.
> Teach a wise man and he is yet wiser. I wouldn't call it
extreme for
> have done that for years and it really is quite flexible and quick.
> Now to try your way.
I was thinking particularly of a news page I maintain which can have
tens
of very similar links and to find the correct one in an editor you have
to invoke search and still I have ended up with the wrong one! Agreed
that on a very simple page, what you describe is adequate for the task.
Pleased to see that <Select><Adjust> pops up in !Help
with NetSurf so it
shouldn't be news to anyone. ;-)
Oh I have just tried it. Super. Changing my ways now. Thanks
Alan
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12:24 p.m.
John Rickman Iyonix wrote on 26 Mar:
Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
it
into the clipboard?
I never knew Shift-Adjust-click did this trick till Tony Moore
enlightened us here. And then, of course, I see that interactive Help
has been enlightening us all the time -- methinks I'll leave it
switched on now and then, even on familiar apps, to see what further
enlightenment I gain.
To export the url of the page you are ON (i.e., the addressbar, as
opposed to a link IN THE BODY of the page) simply drag* it to a
textfile. Or Shift-drag it to a directory, where it appears with the
filetype URL. Easier than using the menu "Page > Save location >
...".
(*Some versions of the OS allow ordinary drag to select parts of a
writable field such as the addressbar. In that case, use Ctrl-drag.
Those versions probably also support Ctrl-A Ctrl-C to copy the
contents of the addressbar to the clipboard.)
Netsurf's interactive help doesn't mention these actions.
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