On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 00:10:09 +0000, Dave Woodfall wrote: > Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it > for over 10 years.
One issue I have with it is that context is lost. Marketing emails today tend to be massive strings with embedded IDs in them. Telling one from another in urlview means I'm bouncing back and forth between it and the message (or having 2 mutt instances to coordinate). Other than that, I really enjoy urlview. I even have a binding in tmux to this script: ======================================== #!/bin/sh [ -z "$TMUX" ] && exit 1 tempfile="$( mktemp )" tmux capture-pane tmux save-buffer "$tempfile" tmux delete-buffer tmux new-window -n urlview "urlview $tempfile; rm $tempfile" ======================================== which allows me to have wrapped lines work even with vertical splits (which confuses the terminal just like the sidebar does). --Ben
