Hi!
I'm currently using mutt in xterm, and I finally got tired of copy&paste
long urls (wrapped in multiple lines) from mutt to browser. Ideally, I'd
like to be able to open urls by clicking them.
It looks like xterm doesn't support clicking on urls, so I'm ready to
switch to any other terminal emulator which will support this feature.
Right now I'm experimenting with Konsole, but it's just a random choice.
Side note about 'markers': I'd like them, but had to switch them off
to avoid junk inside urls. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have
markers in all wrapped lines except inside urls - is that possible?
Problem is, konsole doesn't detect wrapped urls as single line. While
investigating this issue I noticed line selection (using triple-click) also
doesn't detect lines wrapped by mutt as single line (but it does work for
lines wrapped by other apps like less or bash, both in xterm and konsole).
So, looks like something is broken in mutt.
Maybe this issue is already known: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3453
I don't like to use url shorteners because of several reasons:
- I wanna see real url before opening it
- private urls unintentionally made public
- changing content of incoming emails may break things (like pgp signatures)
- probably won't work for outgoing emails
and first reason is most important.
I know about urlview, but it both doesn't show long urls well and more
complicated to use than just copy&paste (with disabled markers).
Can anyone recommend any other solutions? How you open long urls?
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WBR, Alex.
It would be nice to see this fixed somehow. I've used urlview in the
past but I prefer to see links in the context of the surrounding text.
Dave
