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

[José María Mateos]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:39:34PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
>To me, the gold standard of "selecting URLs while in text mode to be 
>sent to the browser" is a plugin for irssi ("the mutt of IRC clients", 
>I'd say) called simply url.pl. It tracks which URLs have been posted to 
>all channels one is into and prepends a number between brackets. When 
>one wants to visit a given address (let's say, just for this example, 
>that I want to visit the third URL that was posted), just has to send 
>the command /url 3, and it will be sent to Firefox.

Thinking a bit more about this: is there any way to replicate this 
behavior in mutt using some external script?

Using elinks/w3m/whatever we can have a list of numbered links from the 
HTML portion of the message we are reading. That dump can be piped to a 
temporary file and then read using bash/python/perl/yougettheidea to 
extract link number N (we need a way of passing N to the script), which 
is then sent to firefox.

I know this can't be done with a macro because it can't get any user 
input, unless I'm mistaken, but I was wondering if the above pipeline 
could be implemented somehow with the existing parts.

Cheers!

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José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/