Launch lynx from email (was Re: LYNX-DEV suggestion)

[Michael Warner]

On or about Wed, Feb 04, 1998, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Leiva Chappa wrote:

    [...]

> >   It would also be useful if PINE recognized an internet address and
> > opened the link using Lynx, nut I guess that is not a suggestion for
> > you. Anyway, wherever you are, have a nice day.
>
> The mail user agent "mutt" can recognize URLs in mail messages and
> launch Lynx if you tell it to.  Mutt runs under UNIX and its home page
> is http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/

A brief follow-up... That function has been moved out of mutt-proper, at
least for the time being, to a helper-app called "urlview".  The message
is piped to urlview, which parses out the URL's, presents them in a
menu, and then launches your browser on the URL you choose.  It works
really well for me.  I use it to feed lynx from both mutt and trn.

PS Is changing the Subject: line as above a Bad Thing?  I'm partial to
descriptive Subjects, but I'm never quite sure of the right way to do
it, or whether I might be breaking somebody's mail sorting.

-- 
Michael Warner 
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