Re: Subject: Disable %-decoding of URLs? (possible bug?)

Conrad Hughes via Lynx-dev <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:07:27 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <E1w3v6w-00000000h6v-0KEb@rin>
Glad you could reproduce :)

> … that makes no sense (lynx is a browser, after all, and you can
> use the extensions menu to make it open links in other browser),
> until we come to…

My use case is that I read email using a 50-year-old (!) text-only mail
client called MH/nmh, and as more and more messages abandon plaintext in
favour of HTML-only content I've found that 'lynx -dump' is by far the
best way to render that HTML as plain text (for which, thank you!).  By
rendering with lynx I can then easily and extremely quickly skim through
a hundred inlined emails in a single pager session; having full URLs
present in the text is then super useful, enabling me to open links if
absolutely necessary.

Best,
Conrad