Viewing text file links in Lynx
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:45:54 +0200
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When viewing Gopher text files in Lynx the links are not clickable.

To get  around this you can  add an external handler  that launches
urlview.

see the previous article:
12025-10-16  Viewing youtube videos in Lynx
gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/0/phlog/2025/2025-10-16-22-10-Viewing-youtube-videos-in-Lynx.txt

+--- lynx.cfg ----------------------------------------------------+

KEYMAP:,:EXTERN_PAGE
KEYMAP:;:EXTERN_LINK 
EXTERNAL_MENU:http:Reader:rdrview --disable-sandbox -T title 
      -B "lynx -cfg /home/philip/.config/lynx/lynx.cfg" '%s':TRUE
EXTERNAL_MENU::Youtube:ythandler %s:TRUE
EXTERNAL_MENU::Urlview:urhandler %s:TRUE

+--- urhandler ---------------------------------------------------+

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if curl --head --silent "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    curl $1 | urlview
else
    notify-send "Invalid URL $1"
fi