Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-12 Thread Stan Ryckman
At 04:49 PM 9/11/00 -0500, David McNett wrote: > >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1047184 Sep 11 11:31 /usr/local/bin/lynx >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 321608 Jun 4 19:06 /usr/local/bin/links >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 261132 May 22 08:10 /usr/local/bin/w3m > >This is reason enough for me to prefer

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:52:52AM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:34:26AM +1100 or thereabouts, Rob Watkin wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:19:19PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > > I use the w3m browser instead of urlview for this. It works great. > > > Simply

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-12 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:34:26AM +1100 or thereabouts, Rob Watkin wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:19:19PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > I use the w3m browser instead of urlview for this. It works great. > > Simply pipe your message from slashdot to w3m, which displays the full > > text

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:55:55PM -0500, David McNett wrote: > If you're not sure yet if I've realized that you are uncomfortable with > others disagreeing with you, please reply in private email and I'd be > more than happy to continue listening to you tell me that you think > lynx is better.

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:55:55PM -0500, David McNett wrote: > On 11-Sep-2000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > let's see - odds are you use vim (or emacs). > > vim's 3-4 times larger than the original vi. > > > > (or are you consistent and use 'ed'?) > > Thomas -- it's quite clear you're more concerne

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:34:26AM +1100, Rob Watkin wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:19:19PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > > > I am wondering if there is any more information on viewing URLs in mutt then > > > is contained i

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread David McNett
On 11-Sep-2000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > let's see - odds are you use vim (or emacs). > vim's 3-4 times larger than the original vi. > > (or are you consistent and use 'ed'?) Thomas -- it's quite clear you're more concerned with defending your preference than in finding the optimal solution. I'm

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Rob Watkin
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:19:19PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > I am wondering if there is any more information on viewing URLs in mutt then > > is contained in the manual. The problem I have quite often is that spawning > > url

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:49:18PM -0500, David McNett wrote: > On 11-Sep-2000, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > perhaps I came on the thread late - I saw that it had nothing to do with > > table support, but mailcap and related issues. > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1047184 Sep 11 11:31 /usr/local/bi

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread David McNett
On 11-Sep-2000, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > perhaps I came on the thread late - I saw that it had nothing to do with > table support, but mailcap and related issues. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1047184 Sep 11 11:31 /usr/local/bin/lynx -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 321608 Jun 4 19:06 /usr/local/bin/li

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Myrddin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:50:22PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: > > > > Aha -- you want more than just the URL, then, because of "deficiencies" in > > > the /. mail message, right? In that case, you'll want to just pump your > > > message through a browser that can pick up the plaintext URLs (thou

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Brian Foley wrote: > As far as I am aware, one of the main advantages of links or w3m over > lynx is the superior handling of tables, which you find on a lot of > web-sites these days (including slashdot, the original ref for this > thread). As far as I know lynx doesnt have

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Brian Foley wrote: > * Thomas E. Dickey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on [11-09-00] wrote: > > > to migrate to w3m or links which appear to be more secure and are > > > functionally superior to lynx in nearly all regards. > > > > ( your opinion ;-) > > > As far as I am aware, one of

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Brian Foley
* Thomas E. Dickey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on [11-09-00] wrote: > > to migrate to w3m or links which appear to be more secure and are > > functionally superior to lynx in nearly all regards. > > ( your opinion ;-) > As far as I am aware, one of the main advantages of links or w3m over lynx is the su

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Rob Reid
At 12:29 AM EDT on September 11 Shane Wegner sent off: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there is any more information on viewing URLs in mutt then > is contained in the manual. As you've seen, there's a lot. Quite an educational thread. > If I hit ctrl+b (spawn urlview) on a post like this, it give

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David McNett wrote: > On 11-Sep-2000, Myrddin wrote: > >BTW, it's lynx, not links. Sounds like a nitpick, but if the poor guy > >was going to do a search on 'links', it wouldn't get him very far. > > Actually, it is links. lynx seems to have fallen into disfavor lately > i

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Pedro Alves
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:26:51AM -0700, Myrddin wrote: > > BTW, it's lynx, not links. Sounds like a nitpick, but if the poor guy was > going to do a search on 'links', it wouldn't get him very far. > > - Myrddin Well, just for the record, 'links' is also a text based web browser, as

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread David McNett
On 11-Sep-2000, Myrddin wrote: >BTW, it's lynx, not links. Sounds like a nitpick, but if the poor guy >was going to do a search on 'links', it wouldn't get him very far. Actually, it is links. lynx seems to have fallen into disfavor lately in reaction to several recent security issues. Many pe

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Myrddin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:56:56AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > > % pine-like url viewing? Moving around in the message itself and spawning a > > % browser. If not, is there a better way to get an URL with some context. > > > > Aha -- you want more than just

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Lars Hecking
> > Aha -- you want more than just the URL, then, because of "deficiencies" in > > the /. mail message, right? In that case, you'll want to just pump your > > message through a browser that can pick up the plaintext URLs (though, > > since you're in a tough boat anyway, you might see if /. offer

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Myrddin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:56:56AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % pine-like url viewing? Moving around in the message itself and spawning a > % browser. If not, is there a better way to get an URL with some context. > > Aha -- you want more than just the URL, then, because of "deficiencies" in > t

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread David T-G
Shane -- ...and then Shane Wegner said... % Hi, % % Take a site like slashdot for example. They send me an email every night Very cool :-) % with a list of today's articles. The format is as follows. % DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet % from the cat-out-of-the-barrel dept. % pos

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-11 Thread Jens Askengren
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote: > [...] Is there any feature which allows > pine-like url viewing? Moving around in the message itself and spawning a > browser. If not, is there a better way to get an URL with some context. I you are using mutt in an xterm, you co

Re: Mutt's URL support

2000-09-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote: > I am wondering if there is any more information on viewing URLs in mutt then > is contained in the manual. The problem I have quite often is that spawning > urlview is not neirly as flexable as I'd like it to be. [...] > If I hit