Conrad Hughes via Lynx-dev wrote in
 <E1w3v6w-00000000h6v-0KEb@rin>:
 ...
 |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

..which is actively developed though.

 |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.

There is still the "References" URI section at the bottom, no?
You could exchange the [NO] tags in the text with the full URL.
Or, you could generate OSC-8 links for the [NO] things that point
to the References section (ie ^O^O in a newer less(1), then), from
which you could then jump off.

*OR*.  Thomas Dickey could implement OSC-8 links in just that way
i just mentioned, in the -dump mode, at least.  That would be
cool, if the ^O series of less(1) would work in that mode.  It is,
btw, a shame that groff did not accept my mdocmx(7) extension,
i could not live without OSC-8 links, so i need local patch;
however, less(1) has finally accepted it, after over a decade, and
it is just rocking to have URL-style navigation within less(1)!

Yes, Thomas Dickey, OSC-8 "link" support in -dump mode would be
overly cool!

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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