On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:38:50PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-02-02, Gabriel Chavez <gaboma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been looking around for a way to open my html emails with Firefox
> > but I still don't know how to do it. Is there a way to do it?
>
> Here's what I use in .printcap. Normally w3m is used inside mutt's
> pager. If I want to open an html e-mail in firefox I tell mutt to
> "print" it:
>
> text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = firefoxurl %s;
>
> firefoxurl is a script that opens a url in a new tab if firefox is
> already running, otherwise it starts firefox:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> MRC="firefox -remote"
> URL="$1"
> CMD="${2:-new-tab}"
> echo "$0 '$1' '$2'" >/dev/tty
> test -f "$URL" && URL="file://$URL"
> expr match "$URL" '.*://.*' >/dev/null || URL="http://$URL";
> if $MRC 'ping()' 2>/dev/null ; then
> echo 'firefox already running'
> echo $MRC "openURL($URL,$CMD)"
> $MRC "openURL($URL,$CMD)"
> else
> echo 'firefox not running'
> echo firefox "$URL"
> firefox "$URL"
> fi
>
Your script works like a charm. Thank you very much.
--
Gabriel Alejandro Chávez Gutiérrez
