Hello All,
I've been "away" for some time suffering with W2k out of no reason at all
if not because I seem to have masochistic tendencies... :-)
Being "late" on a lot of things I started going through my setup(s)
and noticed there's no talk about using Opera as the URL viewer from, in
my case, Pine. What I had and which worked OK was a script to launch
Netscape if one would hit enter on a URL. Netscape being on its way out
I've been trying to make Opera do the same thing.
It doesn't approach the complexity of Douglas' "Netscape" script which
would e.g. test if Netscape is running or not.
I haven't tested yet if Opera is more intelligent than Netscape and if it
needs to know that it's running. At this point in time it looks like it
doesn't need to as it opens the URL in a new window within the running
instance. Much simpler than Netscape.
For Pine go to the setup screen - <M>, <S>, <C>, - and keep the <Page
Down> key pressed until you hit the bottom. The default command you see
will try to launch htmlviewer which than will, most probably, try to use
Konquerer.
To change this hit <ENTER> and type the following command:
"/usr/bin/opera -newwindow _URL_"
Hit <ENTER> again, <E>, <Y> to save and try to open an URL directly from a
message by highlighting it, <Ctrl + F> to go forward and <Ctrl + B> to go
backward. The URL will open in a new window within the running instance
of Opera, otherwise it will launch Opera and do the same.
There's a bummer if Opera is not running yet. It will start OK and go to
your URL but it will occupy the viewer within Pine until you close Opera.
This doesn't happen if you have an instance already running.
At this point in time I haven't played enough with the various options of
Opera to see if it can be circumvented.
In case anybody has been there please share your experience as it might be
an useful SxS.
Cheers,
Zoran.
--
"Software is like sex, It's better when it's Free..."
-- Linus Torvalds
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