On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:16:16PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > I use Mutt 1.4i in Cygwin so do not have access to Urlview.
> > Previous mail to this list regarding alternatives to Urlview
> > have recommended w3m and lynx, and I have had some success
> > putting these in mailcap. However, alot of the links do not
> > display at all in w3m and lynx.
>
> > Is it possible to direct mutt to view plain-text mail in a
> > non-console browser such as Mozilla? Or have others found
> > console-based options to be satisfactory?
>
> It's a little awkward, but you can do this with w3m. If you use 'M'
> instead of Enter to follow a link, w3m will invoke an external browser
> to view the link. You can define this browser in the "External Browser"
> entry in the Option Setting Panel ('o').
lynx (and I assume links) support external browsers as well. But it's
not clear from the description what/why w3m or lynx were not able to
satisfy his needs.
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