Opening youtube videos in Gopher using Chawan
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:49:47 +0100
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My Chawan gopher configuration has  been way beyond expectations so
far, but  one thing wasn't  working - how  to open URL's  under the
cursor, namely youtube video urls?

I posed the question to the  Chawan developper and the answer is to
add this line in ~/.config/chawan/config.toml:

[page]
gm = 'pager.extern(`mpv "$u"`, {env: {u: pager.hoverLink}})'

Hitting 'g' then 'm' will open mpv with the url under the cursor.

Obviously there's  a number of other  things that can be  done like
this.

I feel like I've died and gone to heaven...


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