Re: [Slightly OT] Allow for choosing browser to follow a link
* Kai Grossjohann <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [08-29-07 07:36]:
> Ctrl-b invokes urlview which provides a list of URLs in the current
> message and allows me to choose one of them to view it. This invokes
> w3m or elinks. This is good.
>
> But from time to time I want to invoke other browsers. Or just copy the
> URL to the X11 clipboard.
>
> Is there an alternative to urlview that would allow me to choose the
> program to run on a case-by-case basis?
man urlview provides
REGEXP regexp
urlview uses a regular expression to extract URLs
from the specified text files. \r, \t, \n and \f
are all converted to their normal printf(3)
meanings. The default REGEXP is:
(((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^'
\t<>"]+|(www|web|w3)\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' \t.,;<>":]
<ctrl><b> from .muttrc
macro pager \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of
a message'
write your own script putting the regex result into a variable and
evoke the browser of your choice: firefox %s
call the different scripts via different key combinations
macro pager \cc !script\n 'call firefox to view ...'
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