Re: Buggy urlview command

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-04-11, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The manual says:
> 
>   4.13.  Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL)
> 
>   If a message contains URLs (unified resource locator = address in the
>   WWW space like http://www.mutt.org/), it is efficient to get a menu
>   with all the URLs and start a WWW browser on one of them.  This
>   functionality is provided by the external urlview program which can be
>   retrieved at ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/contrib/ and the configuration
>   commands:
> 
>        macro index \cb |urlview\n
>        macro pager \cb |urlview\n
> 
> But if the message is in base64, this doesn't work.

True.  The manual should probably mention using 'pipe_decode' to
work around this.  I use these instead:

    macro index \cB ":unset wait_key; set pipe_decode\n|w3m\n:set wait_key; 
unset pipe_decode\n" "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message"
    macro pager \cB ":unset wait_key; set pipe_decode\n|w3m\n:set wait_key; 
unset pipe_decode\n" "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message"

Just replace "w3m" with "urlview", if you prefer.

HTH,
Gary

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