On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:48:04PM +0100, Cristian wrote:
> Hi Gary and all,
>
> why didn't I come up with this workaround? I use w3m regularly - I
> hacked my url_handler.sh into calling it when no Netscape is running
> (hardly recently) and as long as Opera refuses to take remote commands
> (although it says it understands them, Opera 5 and Opera 6 TP1 don't).
>
> The workaround does not help Schoeppi a bit, of course, but it's an
> interesting idea in its own right.
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > Display-hooks let you set w3m as the pager for just those messages that
> > you know have a lot of embedded URLs, e.g.,
> >
> > display-hook ~A 'set pager="builtin"'
> > display-hook '~s "reg headlines"' 'set pager="w3m"'
>
> Could you automate it? Could you find out whether there are more
> than, say, 3 URLs in a message body so it's worth to hand over control
> to w3m? Can you do it without slowing down the whole Mutt?
>
> Surely, your proposed solution will help me to read LinguistList
> digests, so thank you very much so far!
>
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Cristian, it IS possible for Opera to take remote commands. I do it all
the time. Try the following: /usr/bin/opera '%s,new-window'
I use this with klipper in mandrake 8.0+.
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