[mew-int 2787] Re: Copying long URLs

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Sven Hartrumpf <Sven.Hartrumpf at example.com>:

> If I copy an URL (from an ascii mail) that spans several lines
> to a browser,
> the \ characters (line continued markers in emacs) are copied too.
> Then I have to edit the URL ...
> 
> Is there a solution for this problem?

The easy solution is to not run emacs in a terminal, but use the GUI
version. With emacs running in a terminal, I cannot think of anything
you can do from within emacs to alleviate the problem, since after all
emacs is not involved in the process of copying text from the terminal.

Oh, but another way would be to not copy the URL at all, but use
browse-url-at-point. Your emacs setup may need some tweaking for that
to work. See variable: browse-url-browser-function.

- Harald