On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:06:30PM -0400, John P. Verel muttered:
-> Hi. I'm having a problem with autoview with Netscape. What I want to
-> do is have mutt launch Netscape if not running, use as remote if
-> already running.
->
-> My .mailcap includes:
->
-> text/html; netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'; copiousoutput;
->
-> My .muttrc includes:
->
-> auto_view text/html
->
-> If I have Netscape open, all works fine. However, when I add
-> test=RunningNetscape at the end of the above .mailcap line, I get an
-> error message and mutt dies.
->
-> Similarly, if I add this line to follow the .mailcap line above --
->
-> text/html; netscape 'openURL(%s)'; copiousoutput
->
-> -- I get an error message.
->
-> I'd have thought this would have launched Netscape. I've tried to get
-> this according to the manual, but so far, no luck.
I have no idea what the manual says, or to what maual you refer.
I think you need a script to launch netscape. It should determine if the
present user has an instance of netscape running. If not, it should launch
netscape as follows:
netscape (%s) &
If netscape is already running, it should senit the file to be displayed
as you have it above.
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