Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

[Dave Woodfall]

On Tue 29 Oct 2019 12:04,
martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> put forth the proposition:
> Regarding the following, written by "Chris Green" on 2019-10-28 at 22:40 Uhr +0000:
> > Isn't that handled by your terminal program?  Mine certainly allows
> > one to right click on any URL to open it.
>
> rxvt-unicode also has an extension ("matcher") that allows you to select
> and open URLs using the keyboard only.
>
> However, when URLs wrap across lines, things often break, and especially
> when you have the sidebar shown, then your terminal emulator has no way to
> make sense of the URL anymore. Mutt, however, does know about message
> contents, and can interpret line breaks much better.

Urlview handles long and short links just fine.  I've been using it
for over 10 years.

-dw

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