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

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October 29, 2019 8:38 AM, "martin f krafft" <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:

> 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.

For this, I think we should design a pager for that purpose.

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