On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:40:40PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
> At 8:42 PM EST on March 21 Gary Johnson sent off:
> > > And then if the message had a good reason to use HTML, I'd have to dig up
> > > how to *not* auto_view it, in order to send it to a real browser. That's
> > > why I stopped using auto_view for html in the good old days before
> > > Microsoft bought hotmail.
> >
> > That's what mutt's attachment menu is for. Just type 'v' from the index
> > or pager and select the part of the message you want to view with a
> > browser. My mailcap actually has these lines:
> >
> > #text/html; mutt_netscape %s; test=RunningX
> > text/html; w3m %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> > text/html; w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
>
> Thanks. What is mutt_netscape?
Sorry about that. mutt_netscape is a script I wrote to make a copy of
mutt's temporary file, then launch netscape on that file and return
immediately to mutt. If you want to look at it, it's at
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/mutt_netscape
It also does what you describe later, i.e., it first tries to connect to
an existing netscape instance and if that fails, it starts a new
netscape instance.
> > I still prefer w3m as the browser because it is so much faster than
> > netscape, so I have the netscape line commented-out for now.
> As far as speed, this isn't from my mailcap, but I'm sure you'll get the gist:
>
> netscape "${}" & else netscape -remote "openURL(${})"
>
> If something takes a long time to start, you probably only need to start it
> once, i.e. emacs/emacsclient. Netscape's successor galeon does even better:
> just "galeon URL" does the right thing. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to
> do the same with Konqueror.
The speed issue I was referring to was not the time to start, but the
time to render a page. When a page contains tables, and graphic
embellishments, and those d***ed banner ads, it can take netscape an
annoyingly long time to render it. W3m is much faster--the page just
appears.
I use w3m as much as I can, especially for reading articles and for
browsing familiar sites where I know I won't be missing anything by not
seeing the graphics. Otherwise I use netscape. I'd use one of the
newer graphical browsers instead, but building one on HP-UX doesn't
sound like fun.
Gary
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