Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-30 Thread José María Mateos
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:39:34PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote: To me, the gold standard of "selecting URLs while in text mode to be sent to the browser" is a plugin for irssi ("the mutt of IRC clients", I'd say) called simply url.pl. It tracks which URLs have been posted to all channels

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread José María Mateos
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:37:29PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were more about requiring an external tool to provide functionality which has become so core to everyday email use that mutt could learn to do it. Urlview also obstructs your view

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:05:10PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: >Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at >08:53 Uhr +: > > I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the > context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Mihai Lazarescu
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 13:37:29 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 00:10 Uhr +: >Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been >using it for over 10 years. Urlview also obstructs your view to context

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “Dave Woodfall” on 2019-10-29 at 08:53 Uhr +: I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then using elinks’ option to pass a link or current URL to an external application or

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
On Mon 28 Oct 2019 20:28, Ben Boeckel put forth the proposition: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 00:10:09 +, Dave Woodfall wrote: > > Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it > > for over 10 years. > > One issue I have with it is that context is lost. Marketing emails

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “雨宫恋叶” on 2019-10-29 at 00:41 Uhr +: For this, I think we should design a pager for that purpose. Urlview could probably be extended accordingly. It’d still be disruptive. Imagine reading a long email, and 75% down you encounter a link you want to

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread 雨宫恋叶
October 29, 2019 8:38 AM, "martin f krafft" wrote: > Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 00:10 > Uhr +: > >> Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it >> for over 10 years. > > Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 00:10 Uhr +: Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it for over 10 years. Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were more about requiring an external tool to provide functionality

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 00:10:09 +, Dave Woodfall wrote: > Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it > for over 10 years. One issue I have with it is that context is lost. Marketing emails today tend to be massive strings with embedded IDs in them. Telling one from

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread Dave Woodfall
On Tue 29 Oct 2019 12:04, martin f krafft put forth the proposition: > Regarding the following, written by "Chris Green" on 2019-10-28 at 22:40 Uhr > +: > > Isn't that handled by your terminal program? Mine certainly allows > > one to right click on any URL to open it. > > rxvt-unicode also

Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "Chris Green" on 2019-10-28 at 22:40 Uhr +: Isn't that handled by your terminal program? Mine certainly allows one to right click on any URL to open it. rxvt-unicode also has an extension ("matcher") that allows you to select and open URLs using the