Parsing URLs (was: Xterm/urxvt for mutt)

[martin f krafft]

Hey there,

Even with a good XTerm config, ncurses still gets in the way of long 
URLs, and the sidebar patch completely breaks them. I don't think 
this can be solved from the xterm, and requires either an external 
tool such as urlview/urlscan (which break the flow), or would need 
to be done within mutt, in similar ways to what plugins do for 
irssi:

1. internal pager scans content for URLs, marks them up with unique 
    identifiers, e.g. `[1]https://mutt.org` or similar;

2. mutt learns a command `view-url-by-id`, which prompts for a 
    number and spawns mailcap on the URL.

3. Additional or alternative commands could be:

    `view-urls`

    : Print a list of URLs from the current buffer, maybe with 
      navigation options like urlview

    `select-url`

    : Highlight the first URL in view, skip to prev/next on up/down 
      arrow, and invoke mailcap when enter is pressed.

Probably not too hard. But yeah, would need to be done… ;)

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