Re: Terminal for mutt with clickable links.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still using my old patched xterm 1.66 with mutt which works
> great opening urls in any browser just by clicking on url. The patch
> can be found here:
>
> http://home.mindspring.com/~lux99999/xterm-hyperlink-patch/
just reading the patch, it seems that it will try to execute the link
command any time one double-clicks (not necessarily a good thing).
> What I was wondering though is if there are terminals now that can do
> this without patching. I know the Gnome and KDE terminals can, but
> those are too heavy for my taste. If there are any new "xterm like"
> terminals I can try with mutt please let me know. I find urlview to
> be useless with long url's, so please do not suggest that solution :)
I seem to recall that there was a patch for rxvt to do something like that
(and also that it was incorporated into rxvt or some related program such
as Eterm). That used regular expressions (which can be a portability
problem if one doesn't limit oneself to the various flavors of linux).
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