On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 10:15:59AM -0500, José María Mateos wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:25:47AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I know this has been discussed before but I can't immediately find the > > discussion or a solution. > > Probably not the solution you're looking for, but what I do (and I guess > more people here do) is to let go of the mouse entirely and have some > external program that understands URLs and we then pipe the message to that > program and select the URL we want to open. > > In my case: > > macro pager e <pipe-entry>'urlscan'<enter> 'Follow links with urlscan' > > Then I just press 'e' when reading a message (or CTRL + b for 'urlview', > which is a bit simpler), select the URL I want to open and exit that > program. Overall it's faster than relying on the mouse, I must say, though > it forces you to scan through the list of links until you've found the one > you're looking for. > That's very much the sort of solution I was looking for, it's quite similar to my workaround. I'll need to compare the different workarounds and see which suits me best.
Thank you. -- Chris Green
