barry angell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 24 Sep 2000:
> I seem to have made a big jump from yahoo web mail to
> Mutt/Linux.
For the better, IMHO. :-)
> I would have preferred an Xwindows based
> client, because I sometimes receive HTML mail, and very
> often receive web links in email that I want to immediately
> `"click".
This can be sort of done in Mutt. Actually, in several ways.
The more common way is to use the urlview utility, that was originally
part of Mutt but has been split off as a separate program. urlview
takes any text, scans it for links, and presents them as a list for the
user. The user can select one (or more, after the selection of one has
ended). What happens when a link is selected is configurable, it
depends on the command that you've chosen. Common commands are to
invoke lynx/w3m/links (all text-mode web-browsers). But you can also
use a script that will check if a Netscape session is running, and if
one is, then make Netscape go to the selected page. Or if not, start
up Netscape with that URL.
All this takes a little doing, but I think the default configuration of
urlview is pretty good, and anyway you can get help from this list (I
don't think there's a separate urlview list, is there?) or from the
various web pages...
Also worth noting is that Mutt's default keybindings already have ^B
bound to invoking urlview.
The second way is to run Mutt in a terminal program which makes links
clickable. For instance, gnome-terminal does this, you can click on
links on the text screen and it will make your Netscape (or whatever)
go to that URL.
I hope this will help you along on your Mutt path,
Mikko
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