On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:09:06PM -0700, Joseph wrote:
> I have ./home/me/.urlview
> REGEXP (((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto)[.:][^ >"\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ 
> .,;\t>">\):]
> COMMAND firefox -remote openURL\(%s,new-tab\)
>
> in mutt macros
> acro index \cb |urlview\n macro pager \cb |urlview\n 
>
> CTRL-B shows URL's but nothing no new tab appears in firefox when I hit 
> any url 

change the COMMAND to 

COMMAND echo firefox -remote openURL\(%s,new-tab\)

and see what the shell actually receives.

btw, recent versions of firefox allow a simple 'firefox <url>'. if you have
configured ff to open a new page in a new tab rather than a new window,
that should give what you want.


-- 
Joost Kremers, PhD
University of Frankfurt
Institute for Cognitive Linguistics
Grüneburgplatz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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