Re: mutt and urlview oddity (alternatives)

[Brian Clark]

* Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 10. 2001 00:14]:

 FWIW - I find mhonarc (Sid package) to be a better alternative to
 urlview.  With it I load the entire email with click-able links into my
 favorite browser.  Gives me a lot more context for selecting links to
 see the whole email.  The following .muttrc macros give me this
 functionality:

I'm familiar with mhonarc, but it seems like a whole lot of code just to
view URLs embedded in email. :-D

Seriously, if I can't figure out what's wrong with urlview, I may just
install mhonarc.

But then again..

The problem seems to be with the pipe | in the macro. For some reason,
_something_ won't let me use a pipe in my mutt config. 

For example, I can do this:

macro pager \cb !perl -MCPAN -e shell;\n

And that works. So it's not a freaky conflict or anything with that
key-combo/xterm/whatever. :-\

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 -Brian Clark

Re: mutt and urlview oddity (alternatives)

[Steve Cooper]

FWIW - I find mhonarc (Sid package) to be a better alternative to
urlview.  With it I load the entire email with click-able links into my
favorite browser.  Gives me a lot more context for selecting links to
see the whole email.  The following .muttrc macros give me this
functionality:

macro index \cb |mhonarc - -single  /tmp/email.html; opera /tmp/email.html \n
macro pager \cb |mhonarc - -single  /tmp/email.html; opera /tmp/email.html \n

Obviously substitute your favorite browser for opera.

An even better alternative (IMO) is to use multi-gnome-terminal for
running Mutt.  It allows you to Ctrl-click URLs in any visible text to
invoke the Gnome-configured URL handler.

Just thought it was worth mentioning.

Cheers,
Steve

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