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

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 00:10 Uhr +0000:
>Urlview handles long and short links just fine.  I've been using it 
>for over 10 years.

Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were more about 
requiring an external tool to provide functionality which has become 
so core to everyday email use that mutt could learn to do it.

Urlview also obstructs your view to context when using it. I've 
opened it a million times only to find myself staring at a list of 
tracking URLs that all look the same, now knowing which one appeared 
in the paragraph I was just reading. Mutt could do a much better 
job, with a UI/UX similar to what rxvt-unicode offers (but cannot 
due to ncurses…), i.e.:

1. enter URL selection mode;
2. use arrow keys to select the URL you want, while the message is 
   being shown;
3. press enter to fire up mailcap handler.

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