On 2019-05-04, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a >> message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1] >> and [2] above? > > A convenient alternative is to just double-click on a link in mutt's > display in an xterm, then paste anywhere in the middle of firefox/iceweasel > (not in the URL box up top). That works with a simple config:
One lady's bug is another lady's feature: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-Middle-Click-Bug Seems the 'middlemouse.contentLoadUrl' default has been "True" since Methuselah, but is set to "False" from Firefox 57 on. Another alternative is the 'urlview' package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/mutt# But everybody mutt probably already knows that. > URL Drop to Invoke: > To be able to drop a URL anywhere in the window, to open it: > Put about:config in the URL box, scroll to middlemouse.contentLoadURL, and > click to toggle it to true. Now a URL highlighted in an xterm can be pasted > to firefox (and opened) with one middlemouse click - even if it has a > spurious space/line-break in it. (Thanks to John L. Fjellstad) > > > Then html messages can generally be subjected to e.g.: > > text/html; /usr/bin/html2text '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text > > which preserves the recipient's text experience, keeping display in > mutt. (Yup, the real one - since late last millennium. ;-) > > Erik >
