On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:27:17AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > ................Mon 1.Apr'13 at 8:14:35 -0600 Luis Mochan................ > > > By the way, the author of the program, Kyle Wheeler, wrote to me that > > > he expects that adding the line > > > COMMAND /etc/urlview/url_handler.sh '%s' > > > to the configuration file ~/.extract_urlview would be enough to solve > > > the problem (with %s between quotes). I believe I had tried that and > > > that it didn't work, but now I'm not completely sure. You could try it. > > > > Well I tried it and it doesn't work without the patch; it is not > > enough to add '%s' to COMMAND. > > Regards, > > Luis > > You are not using the program correctly. extract_urlview has worked > perfectly with mutt, for me, for probably about 2 years now. Why bother > trying to integrate it into your shell script, just use it as a > stand-alone program and don't use urlview at all. > > the contents of my ~/.extract_urlview: > > > COMMAND firefox %s & > SHORTCUT > PERSISTENT > > That's it! The ampersand ensures Firefox runs in the background. Nothing > else needed. > > -- > James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net > jmzgriffin at gmail.com > Thanks mine never worked right until I used your line for COMMAND. Using the example for COMMAND that is on the .extract_urlview website mozilla would go to google and if the url was in google then could go to it from there if not then couldn't get there with .extract_urlview.
Tom
