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

[Mark H. Wood]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:05:10PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:
>    Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at
>    08:53 Uhr +0000:
> 
>      I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the
>      context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then using
>      elinks' option to pass a link or current URL to an external
>      application or command, if elinks can't deal with it itself. That
>      way it's possible to copy the URL into /tmp/screen-exhange, then do
>      something in screen.
> 
>    Sounds like a lot of ifs and loose parts to a task that we all end up
>    doing dozen times a day. A good tool would let me accomplish such a
>    task without engaging my brain, and with one or two key presses, don't
>    you think?

Well, since you asked what I think:  I think that following links
without engaging my brain is dangerous behavior, and one of the
reasons I use Mutt is to interrupt that behavior before it becomes
established.

-- 
Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

University Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
755 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-0749
www.ulib.iupui.edu
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