On Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 10:55, Matt Larson wrote: > I finally got around to upgrading from a crufty build of 1.5.18 to > 1.5.20 (hg HEAD from 30 June 2010) . I run mutt on a Mac and use this > line in mailcap to handle any HTML MIME parts: > > text/html; cat > /tmp/mutt.html\;open /tmp/mutt.html > > When I message had an HTML part I wanted to view, I'd hit "v", select > the HTML part, hit return, and this usage of Mac OS's "open" command > would open a new tab in Safari.
press 'm' (view-mailcap) instead of return. view-mailcap is for launching external viewers, whereas return tries to get data into the pager (using mailcap entries tagged 'copiousoutput'). There was some good discussion about this change, but I no longer remember the details. It's in the mutt-dev archive somewhere :)
