On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:33:24PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bruno Daniel wrote:
> Is it possible to implement opening a Netscape window upon clicks onto http-
> and ftp-Links in mutt?
[snip]
> What's your opinion?
I have read David DeSimone's reply and I think he's absolutely right
about mouse-clicks being better-suited to cut and paste than other
functions, but if you simply must have this functionality, you might
consider installing the latest version of Gnome ("October Gnome", 1.0.53),
which has this ability in its gnome-terminals, and read mutt in a
gnome-terminal. It's supposed to be an xterm emulator, but it has a
few additional features...
And the one I'm thinking of is that with the latest version of
Gnome, when the mouse is moved over a URL in a gnome-terminal,
the URL (for ftp, http, etc) becomes underlined whilst the mouse is
on it. And if you hold the control key down and click the mouse,
out opens a Netscape window and it displays that URL for you.
I can see this feature will both appeal and appal :) However, I
don't think mutt really needs it. urlview is entirely adequate --
and doesn't assume you're running X, either.
Telsa.
