Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 07:40:35AM +0000, Nils Freydank wrote
> Hi Walter,
> 
> in case your problem isn't already solved net-mail/urlscan[1] might
> be an alternative. Currently I maintain it in my overlay[2]. I just
> use it with xdg-open or KDE's URL-click-behaviour, but according to
> the urlscan readme you can "Run a command with the selected URL as
> the argument or pipe the selected URL to a command." which sounds
> to me as your workflow.

  Thanks.  I simply want a list of URLs that I can select to open in
Pale Moon.  If I can copy URLs into the paste buffer, even better.  It's
been a long while since I last used an overlay.  What are the steps to
setting up "urlscan" in an overlay?  Even more basic, what are the steps
to setting up an overlay?  My /etc/portage/repos.conf/

ll /etc/portage/repos.conf/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar  5 20:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  291 Dec 14 12:31 gentoo.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   74 Oct 26  2017 local.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   42 Oct 26  2017 localrepo.conf

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cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = rsync
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
auto-sync = yes
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no

# for daily squashfs snapshots
#sync-type = squashdelta
#sync-uri = mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs

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cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/local.conf 
[localrepo]
location = /usr/local/portage
masters = gentoo
auto-sync = no

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cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/localrepo.conf 
[localrepo]
location = /usr/local/portage

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications