Re: Terminal for mutt with clickable links.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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).
You can however really limit the actions with the the accompanying
script so you only get action where you want it, i.e. for urls. Works
for me, but of course, there may be situations where this could be
problematic (even though I'm not able to come up with an example).
>
> > 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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