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Anonymous
May 27, 2013, 6:34:12 PM5/27/13
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ac> One disadvangage using mutt is that it doesn't cope well with mails that
ac> have a lot of url links.
ac>
ac> There can be 50 or more of these, and the reference numbers in the text
ac> [nn] don't correspond with the list of urls at the bottom of the email.
ac> There are no clues in the urls themselves to help identify them.
Your URLs are numbered in mutt? Is that a new feature?
ac> Do other people have trouble with this? Any solution?
I have trouble with *long* URLs. If an url has to be wrapped, the 2nd
line starts with a "+" followed by the rest of the url. If I click
the url, sometimes just the portion from one line is captured, and
sometimes both lines. But even when both lines are captured, the
mutt-injected plus symbol becomes part of the url. So long urls are
broken in the mutt 1.5.20 either way.
The solution? Urlview. Instal urlview, and then when a message has
urls, use "|" to pipe it to urlview. This may mitigate your problems.
For me, urlview works *sometimes*. Other times, it only shows part of
the url.
ac> have a lot of url links.
ac>
ac> There can be 50 or more of these, and the reference numbers in the text
ac> [nn] don't correspond with the list of urls at the bottom of the email.
ac> There are no clues in the urls themselves to help identify them.
Your URLs are numbered in mutt? Is that a new feature?
ac> Do other people have trouble with this? Any solution?
I have trouble with *long* URLs. If an url has to be wrapped, the 2nd
line starts with a "+" followed by the rest of the url. If I click
the url, sometimes just the portion from one line is captured, and
sometimes both lines. But even when both lines are captured, the
mutt-injected plus symbol becomes part of the url. So long urls are
broken in the mutt 1.5.20 either way.
The solution? Urlview. Instal urlview, and then when a message has
urls, use "|" to pipe it to urlview. This may mitigate your problems.
For me, urlview works *sometimes*. Other times, it only shows part of
the url.
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Jorgen Grahn
May 28, 2013, 3:40:31 AM5/28/13
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On Mon, 2013-05-27, Roger Bell_West wrote:
> autoconfigured through /etc/mime.types .
Or maybe links or w3m has the same feature -- to translate links into
footnotes[1] at the end. It's a useful feature in some scenarios, so
I would be surprised if only lynx can produce them.
[1] http://example.org
/Jorgen
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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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> On 2013-05-27, Anonymous wrote:
>>Your URLs are numbered in mutt? Is that a new feature?
>
> I suspect he's using lynx as an HTML-to-text translator, probably
>>Your URLs are numbered in mutt? Is that a new feature?
>
> autoconfigured through /etc/mime.types .
Or maybe links or w3m has the same feature -- to translate links into
footnotes[1] at the end. It's a useful feature in some scenarios, so
I would be surprised if only lynx can produce them.
[1] http://example.org
/Jorgen
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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
\X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
Anonymous
Jun 2, 2013, 6:24:45 AM6/2/13
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ac> One disadvangage using mutt is that it doesn't cope well with mails that
ac> have a lot of url links.
ac>
ac> There can be 50 or more of these, and the reference numbers in the text
ac> [nn] don't correspond with the list of urls at the bottom of the email.
ac> There are no clues in the urls themselves to help identify them.
ac> have a lot of url links.
ac>
ac> There can be 50 or more of these, and the reference numbers in the text
ac> [nn] don't correspond with the list of urls at the bottom of the email.
ac> There are no clues in the urls themselves to help identify them.
Your URLs are numbered in mutt? Is that a new feature?
Anonymous
Jun 2, 2013, 6:43:05 PM6/2/13
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>I suspect he's using lynx as an HTML-to-text translator, probably
>autoconfigured through /etc/mime.types .
ah, that would explain it.
>autoconfigured through /etc/mime.types .
>Another solution to this:
>set markers=no
>You still need to capture both lines, but most browsers will ignore
>the spurious line break.
Thanks for the tip!
Ultimately I should probably file a bug report against urlview (the
fact that it corrupts some urls)
(btw, sorry about the dupe post earlier)
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