On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote:
> I am wondering if there is any more information on viewing URLs in mutt then
> is contained in the manual. The problem I have quite often is that spawning
> urlview is not neirly as flexable as I'd like it to be.
[...]
> If I hit ctrl+b (spawn urlview) on a post like this, it gives me a nice yet
> utterly meaningless set of URLs. Is there any feature which allows
> pine-like url viewing? Moving around in the message itself and spawning a
> browser. If not, is there a better way to get an URL with some context.
I use the w3m browser instead of urlview for this. It works great.
Simply pipe your message from slashdot to w3m, which displays the full
text of the message, then type a colon (:). This will cause w3m to
search the text for strings that look like URLs and treat them as
anchors. Move the cursor to the anchor/link of interest and hit Enter,
which will cause w3m to open that URL. If you don't like using w3m as a
browser, you can configure it to use a different browser to open URLs.
I regularly receive a list of articles from The Register as you do from
slashdot, so I use display-hooks to automatically set the pager to w3m
for these messages:
display-hook ~A 'set pager="less -rf"'
display-hook '~s "the register update"' 'set pager="w3m"'
I think display-hooks are only available as a patch to 1.2. The patch
was posted to this list (or the mutt-dev list) earlier this year.
How did you get slashdot to send you a list of articles? I've searched
the site for such a feature but couldn't find it.
Regards,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
