On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:52:18AM +0100, Nicolas Brouard wrote:
> Can you tell us more on "mutt".
Sure. Mutt is freeware, runs on a variety of platforms, and is related
in some ways to elm and pine, earlier mail clients. Take a look at
http://www.mutt.org
for the whole story.
> It seems to simply decrypt a non-standard language with replies, URLS,
> signatures etc (as GNU-emacs does for example, in colors).
No, mutt does not rely on any language of any kind. It simply uses
the syntactic and semantic information in the headers and bodies of
messages to figure out which items are which.
For example, in this message, the lines beginning with "> " are clearly
quoted from the previous author. The line with "http://" is clearly
a URL. And so on. Mutt uses this, along with the user's color
preferences (and mine are something like this:
color header black green ^(From|To|Subject|Date|Cc|Newsgroups):
color body red default "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # point out URLs
color body blue default [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+ # e-mail addresses
at least on this machine) in order to determine how to display
information to the end user.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
