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Re: Feature request: "inspect link", "paste quote", "paste link"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew J Gering)
Tue Jan 31 20:21:45 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:09:25 +0100
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From: Matthew J Gering <gering@u.washington.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com> writes:
> >Feature request of the day: I wish NetScape, Mosaic, et. al had the
> >feature available in lynx, the original NeXT browser, and I believe the
> >emacs w3 browser; that is, to inspect a link without traversing it.
> >
> >In Netscape/Mosaic, if I see a link to the document that I want to
> >tell my friend about, I have to either traverse the link and copy the
> >address out of the "current document address" text field (which may
> >take more time than I'm interested in, or worse: if it's a postscript
> >document, this approach won't work at all) or I have to do "view source"
> >and copy the address out of there (which might be a relative link, in
> >which case I have to do some surgery to come up with the absolute link.)
>
> AIR Mosaic can do this, too... hold down Control-Shift while clicking on the
> link, and it gets copied to the clipboard.
>
As does the formerly mentioned Netscape running on Win31. Just moves the
mouse pointer over the link.
-- Matt
