Hi, * s. keeling [04/13/02 03:11:49 CEST] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:27:25AM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > > Try 'w3m -dump' for autoview.
> Thanks Rocco. Problem solved. Much appreciated. No problem. I didn't mention the manpages for those 3 text-mode browsers. Maybe you should read it. > This works: > macro index \cB |'w3m -m -cookie'\n 'call w3m to extract URLs out of a message' > macro pager \cB |'w3m -m -cookie'\n 'call w3m to extract URLs out of a message' > This doesn't: > macro index \cB |'links'\n 'call links to extract URLs out of a message' > macro pager \cB |'links'\n 'call links to extract URLs out of a message' > The latter two just lock up mutt. kill -HUP `pidof links` says > "ERROR: could not get terminal size" So, now that you know that the 'could not get terminal...' error from links is because it wants to run in interactive mode, this is the same problem here. The pipe is used to hand the current mail/news over via stdin to a program specified. So, the program must be abled to read from stdin. w3m is (IIRC not documented in the manpage), but links isn't. That means that links ignores the input from stdin and just wants to run with the URL given (none in your case). If you really depend on links, I think a short wrapper should help: #!/bin/sh tee > $filename && links $filename && rm -f $filename (or: maybe this can be done directly in the macro) Btw, if you want to extract URLs from a message body why not use UrlView adjusted to use your favorite browser? Cheers, Rocco.
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