Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:

> One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it won't
> let you paste text from an html file into the URL field. This is
> something I regularly want to do when, for example, there's a bit of
> Javascript that redirects me to a different page. I have to view the
> source and then change the filetype to Text before copying the new URL
> to the clipboard. This shouldn't be necessary.

It _isn't_ necessary, when using StongED to view the HTML source. Press
f8 to view the source, select the URL, press ctrl-shft-c to copy it to
the clipboard, click in the NS URL field (or Open URL window), press
ctrl-v to paste the URL. Perhaps I've misunderstood the problem?

Tony